The Influence Of Dissection On The Grasshopper

I was completely fine until it was time to dissect it - the grasshopper, I mean. I even completed the pre-lab assignment and didn’t feel grossed out at all. Except when I started to get a little queasy from staring at a picture of the grasshopper so I could label one of the diagrams of the prelab. But aside from that, I thought I was pretty well prepared to dissect a grasshopper, even though I knew I was deathly afraid of all insects and anything that looked similar to them. I somehow convinced myself that by going through with the dissection, I could finally get over my fear of bugs. After all, I had dissected things several times before and never had any problems. How different could dissecting a grasshopper be than dissecting an earthworm? I was terribly, terribly wrong. As soon as my teacher came around with the bucket of grasshoppers, I started to panic. “You can do the honors of picking the grasshopper that we’re gonna cut up,” I said to my lab partner. “Uh, sure. Dunno how much of an honor that is though,” was his reply as he lifted our multi-legged “friend” out of the bucket of repulsive creatures just like it. As soon as I saw the bug in my lab partner’s hands, the arthropod’s bulging eyes, sharp mandibles, and large hind legs made me want …show more content…
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