Marsha Hales 'Breathing Room'

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The setting in both the book and the article are the same, but the authors presents them in diverse ways. In the “Breathing Room,” the setting is at a hospital at Loon lake, Minnesota from 1940-1942. Marsha Hales had described the setting in a way where you felt like you were sitting in that hospital with Evvy. “I stared at the dull ceiling. Not even a crack or splotch for my mind to pick at like a scab-just plain white. White above me, white below me, white on all sides. I tipped my head to look to my left: the empty bed. To the right: two doors-one I’d just come through and the other? Maybe a closet or a bathroom.” The author had added some extra details on the setting, so that the reader could get a clear image of the hospital, Loon Lake,

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