The Difficulties

A clinical lesson in Salpietre was difficult to respond to because there were so many small details that could’ve been missed. The purpose on writing this literacy narrative was to explain about how the painting provoked us to feel, and what interested or disturbed us. It was difficult for me to express all my emotions on paper because I didn’t understand the painting at the beginning, and the painting was the only source of reference.  

The audience I was trying to attract was my reader’s attention and the people who would feel the same way I felt and to understand the idea I had towards the painting through discussions. Writing about a painting, I realized I had to be more detailed and more specific when talking about how I felt about the elements of the painting. The difficulties, I unsure where to start but my solution was connecting it to an example I had thought would fit perfectly. Assuming that not all of our ideas or perspectives on the painting were the same, but there was no right or wrong answer.  

My idea on connecting it to an example made it easier and clear on how to explain what I was feeling, but it still made it difficult because I didn’t know how to structure my words out. 

The example I used was, the woman in the painting who appeared to be (the subject), so I represented her as “a piece of meat”. Which allowed me to have much more of an idea to write about and motivated me to give in more of my thoughts on the discussion. To help me out even more I read and researched on the background information on the painting, A clinical lesson on salpietre. With all the information being focused on the painting and the women being shown as the subject, it was safe to say I understood what I had to state out.  

Hysteria was a major component on the painting, because that’s what the Clinical lesson was based on. Which this brought my opinion in and made it all connect, from the painting, to my idea/example and my opinion in hysteria.