PTSD Claims – Senpai Pio

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Senpai Pio
  1. “But here we’ve got lasagna, and salad with an array of dressing choices, and a store-bought frosted Bundt cake with chocolate chips in it!” There are multiple factual claims stated here. This is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not there actually is lasagna.
  2. “There is no dining-room table—when they bought the house years ago, they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house, before the war, but nobody’s up for that now, so we all huddle around the coffee table in the living room.” This is a mix of factual claims and casual claims. The factual claims is that there is no dining room table, and that they are huddled around at the coffee table in the living room. They can prove whether or not that is true. The casual claim is that they though they would finish it up like they did with their old house, but due to the war they have not felt like it. This is a casual claim because casual claims deal with cause and effect. Since the war is going on, the effect is that they do not feel like finishing the house.
  3. “And it’s lovely.” I belie that this is an evaluation claim. This is because evaluation claims could be argued, like saying how the situation is lovely.
  4. “Dinner lasts for hours.” This is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not this is truthful.
  5. “Brannan tries to calm Katie down despite the excitement of the visitor at dinner,” This is both a factual claim and a casual claim. Since Katie is excited, Brannan tries to calm her down. There is a cause and effect relationship. Another casual claim is since there is a visitor, Katie is excited. The factual claim here is that Brannan is trying to calm Katie down. They can see if that is actually truthful.
  6. “The plates have been cleared by then, everyone reclining, he laughs when he says this, and she laughs, and swats at him from where she’s curled herself into his armpit with his arm around her.” This sentence starts off by a factual claim. This is because it is whether or not the plates have truly been cleared. There is another factual claim by saying everyone reclining. When initially reading this sentence, I thought there was a attributive claim due to the “he says this…”, but I realized there was no claim that followed. Therefore, I believe this whole sentence is a bunch of factual claims put together.
  7. “At the front door, we all beam at each other in the warm way people do when they’re separating after a nice meal.” This sentence as an evaluative claim because it can be argued if that is truly what people do after having a meal.
  8. “Caleb is in such a good mood that Brannan asks if he’s up for putting Katie to bed so she can go lie down.” This is a recommendation claim because since Caleb is in a good mood, he should put Katie to bed.
  9. “Forty-five minutes later, he wakes her up screaming.” This sentence is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not this is true.”
  10. Not two days after that, he tells her he’s leaving her. “I’m going to get it over with and do it so you don’t have to,” he says, because that’s just the way the scale goes that day, when he weighs the pain of being alone versus the pain of being a burden.” This starts off as a factual claim. It can be proved whether or not he told her he is leaving. Then, by his quote it is an attributive claim. This is because the author writes he says”…”. The actual quote itself is a comparative quote. That is because Caleb compares the pain of being a burden or just being alone.
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1 Response to PTSD Claims – Senpai Pio

  1. davidbdale says:
    February 28, 2023 at 2:37 am

    You’re doing very nice work here, SenpaiPio.

    “The plates have been cleared by then, everyone reclining, he laughs when he says this, and she laughs, and swats at him from where she’s curled herself into his armpit with his arm around her.”
    This sentence starts off by a factual claim.
    —No doubt.
    There is another factual claim by saying everyone reclining.
    —Sure.
    When initially reading this sentence, I thought there was a attributive claim due to the “he says this…”, but I realized there was no claim that followed. Therefore, I believe this whole sentence is a bunch of factual claims put together.
    —Well, . . . what he said was, “It feels like we’ve been married for-ever.”
    —It’s Attributive but Factual because the Author was actually there to hear the claim, not passing along someone else’s recollection.
    —It’s Evaluative, too, because his laugh shows he meant to be amusing and return the teasing of how his age has been made fun of.
    —The whole little section is Illustrative of how loving and happy the couple can be for brief moments.
    —Even the “for-ever” is an Illustration by the Author of how Caleb pronounced the word.

    Mostly the entire Section 18 is Comparative and every small claim has to be read with that in mind. The Author wants to show how quickly moods can change from hospitable and jolly to “I’m leaving you so you don’t have to leave me.”

    Graded.

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