The excerpt “Handed My Own Life” depicts a child learning the art of perception and how it applies to their adult life. At first, the child can only see what is placed right in front of him. For Christmas he wanted a microscope and thought that upon receiving the microscope complete with test tubes he would be able to recognize such things as “hay infusion” and “diatomaceous earth.” When he tried to see them and encounters difficulty, he learns that you must look past the obvious. It took him years to fully understand what that meant.
In the spring when he finally finds an amoeba that he has been looking for since fall, he runs upstairs to share the exciting news with his family. His
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