Jennifer Egan's essay "The Thin Red Line- is an informative essay, which reflects a problem of our society's people. She states some people do horrible activities during the adolescence, and a number of people get self-mutilation when they fail to make everyone around them happy. They began to hurt their bodies in different ways "cutting with blades, glasses or burning a part of their bodies. She says self-mutilation generates a new interest as a subject in study. According to Dr. Favazza's who is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Missouri, statistic shows every 750 per 100,000 Americans are suffering from self-injury behavior. Egan gives many example of several people's self-injury such as Jill, Jamie, and Jane's case, and she mentions about how they hurt themselves. Also the author gives an example of a personage that Princes Diana, who was respectable, hurt her body. She says, "Princes Diana shocked people by admitting that she cut herself during her unhappy marriage- (159). Even though self-harm is a very fainful and terrible deed, some people hurt themselves because they feel enormous pleasure, circumstances, or peer pressure when they do it. .
Some people hurt a part of their bodies for their own happiness. It is very unusual in our lives. Egan tells that people harm themselves because they perceive peace, and they feel better. She states a story of a girl Jill who used to hurt herself by cutting her legs, and burning her hands. She writes how Jill sometimes feels self-mutilation. According to Jill, "It was actually pleasureful. It gave me chills; it was that kind of feeling. I sat there smiling, watching myself bleed- (165). In my opinion, there is no happiness in hurting our own bodies. I do not understand how people possibly can have peace and better feelings when they are in pain.
Many young people have self-mutilation behavior because they have difficult situations in their lives.
