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The Harvest Amy Impel Analysis
The Harvest
In the story, The Harvest By Amy Hempel, talks about a accident occurred between a girl in a motorcycle and a car. And this story goes deep on what happened to the person who got injured from the accident which is the narrator. However, the question is why does the narrator change her description of what happened to her or is it something she just liked to do or is there a reason behind changing her description during the short story of what happened to her.

The narrator made the readers think the she was in a car when the accident happened but really she was not in a car. How? We will find out?. In the beginning before the accident happened ‘’The man i had met the week before was driving me to dinner when it happened.’’(
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