4.Impression


 * 4.What is the one impression that the writer wants you to have about his/her subject?**


 * The impression that Saski Verlaan wants the reader to have about fear is that it can affect your life many years after having experianced it. Fear will always stay within yourself. The writer wants the reader to get the impression that although fear causes confusion and disortion it is an essential factor for discovering the characteristics for who you really are.**

"Through distortion ancient artists achieved a portrait that was faithful to the characteristics of a human being. Thousands of years later this method of functional distortion is still being used: in the paintings of Picasso and in my mind." (page 5 paragraph 5)

"I can see now that these aspects of my memory are windows into the multiple aspects of a single personality, attesting to the complexity that exists within the self." (page 5 paragraph 6)

"...fear is remembered: The web of your worst nightmares, your hauntings and panics..." (Page 2 Paragraph 12)

"My memories of fear burn themselves into my mind..." (Page 2 Paragraph 11)



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