Question

Which statements from the text best support the answer in Part A?

Select the two correct answers.
"If you have an experience and you sit down and write about it, you can pour that emotion out,' Harper says. 'Getting rid of
these thoughts and emotions helps to find meaning in the death or the survival of a patient and then allows you to move
on with your life, he says.""
"Raymond Mar is a professor at York University in Toronto. He studies the effect reading fiction and nonfiction has on our
ability to understand what others are feeling."
"We learn through the experiences of the characters we read about,' Coke says. Because we empathize, or feel what
Oothers are feeling, we expand our understanding of other people in other situations. We are also less bothered by our own
misfortunes.
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"A movement called narrative medicine has been growing. It comes from the idea that both writing and reading literature
can help doctors and patients to communicate better."

Answer 1

The statements from the text that best support the answer are:

"If you have an experience and you sit down and write about it, you can pour that emotion out,' Harper says. 'Getting rid of these thoughts and emotions helps to find meaning in the death or the survival of a patient and then allows you to move on with your life, he says."

"We learn through the experiences of the characters we read about,' Coke says. Because we empathize, or feel what others are feeling, we expand our understanding of other people in other situations. We are also less bothered by our own misfortunes."

These statements highlight the idea that writing and reading literature can help doctors and patients communicate better and can assist individuals in processing their emotions and finding meaning in difficult experiences.