Which conclusion BEST explains the narrator's inability to find his own heart in the paragraph on
pages 4-5 of the passage?
He has not received proper medical training.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried
to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not
at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a
sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my
watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and
forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my
heart. I could not feel my heart. It had
stopped beating. I have since been induced
to come to the opinion that it must have been
there all the time, and must have been
beating, but I cannot account for it. patted
myself all over my front, from what I call my
waist up to my head, and I went a bit round
each side, and a little way up the back. But I
could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look
at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it
would go and I shut one eye, and tried to
He is in a location where there is too much noise to
hear anything
He is inclined to believe the worst about his health.
He has symptoms of an illness that weaken his
heartbeat