It would be <span>[E: The sheep bell tinkles in her ear.]
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Because people are treated unfairly.
Persuasive texts try to get you to agree with them on an idea. Persuade means to make something think something. Persuasive means the same.
Here "feeling sick" means to feel intense emotion that makes one feel unwell or nauseous. Hemingway describes emotional, rather than physical sickness. The character just doesn't want to accept the loss of his wife.