Satsuki's Argumentative Essay

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(insert intro paragraph here) The painful tone of the excerpt progresses into healing, suggesting that accepting the loss will bring an end to suffering, no matter how great. Seeing the fading apparition of her newly deceased lover, Satsuki is engulfed by the raw despair she likely felt when news of his death had first reached her, and it manifests in the fervently grieving quality of a passage shortly afterward. After all, she recounted the experience as “a ray of light piercing [her] heart” (do I put a page number or line number here?). Satsuki likened the impact of an event that did her no physical harm to a sharp object stabbing through her. The inclusion of her heart, a vital organ and also perceived to be the emotional center of the