Answer:
“A slight chill in the air teases autumn, and the hairs on my arms rise. Just finish, I tell myself. Just finish.”
Explanation:
Hello. You did not present the text to which this question refers, which makes it difficult for it to be answered. However, when searching for your question on the internet, I was able to find another question exactly the same as yours, which showed that the text in question was "A Turn of Events." If that's your case, I hope this answer can help you.
In the text we can see a girl who is very nervous and anxious to be able to participate in a race and have very good results, being one of the first runners to reach the end of the course. She believes that this way, she will be able to fit in better and maintain her friendship with the other girls on the team, which she thinks are very cool. However, this anxiety damages her performance and she ends up pretending that she sprained her ankle so that no one knows that she didn't complete the race because she couldn't do it. However, this girl started to realize that winning or losing the race didn't matter to her friends and that the important thing was just that she participated and was able to finish the race. When she started to think that way, the anxiety, which so much hindered her, went away and she started to manage to complete the races in a satisfactory way.
The quotation that best presents this is: “A slight chill in the air teases autumn, and the hairs on my arms rise. Just finish, I tell myself. Just finish.”
