4.+Impressions?

What is an impression that the writer wants you to have about her subject?

As Verlaan tells her story, the reader gets an impression of understanding. The emotion of fear has been experienced by everyone, and can be related to easily. Verlaan also describes how she has come to a point in her life where fear has taken over, and has began to control her. She examines her fear by telling her story, her experiences, and her hope to heal.

__**Evidence:**__ "I realized with childhood's sudden, ambiguous sensation of horror the absence of my mother, sister, and grandmother."
 * This quote shows her feelings as she first thinks that she had been abandoned,

"Nevertheless, when I am inflicted with a bout of sleeplessness, there is usually very little I can do but wait it out."
 * The following quote shows and example of her fear taking over her life,