Passage from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

One passage i found extremely emotionally loaded was when Mr. Flint came to Linda's house and excused her of having more men try and buy her.  He proceeded to grab her violently screaming at her, and at the same time grab her son and through him across the room.  When she tries and run to her boy he grabs her and doesn't let her go.

The first thing that majority contributes to my emotions is that it is written so that we are to experience exactly what Linda is seeing.  When her boy was tossed across the room I wanted to know right then if he was alright or not, but because it's from Linda's point of view we were left to wonder if he was okay or not, just like Linda.  Linda said at one point that she looked over and could not tell if he was dead or not.  This was a big emotional cliff hanger because all I wanted was to know if he was okay, but she was still being held my the master.   The pace at which she writes also contributes to the emotional appeal.  The sentence structure is short and follows each other at a quick pace.  The dialogue is short and and consists of many words in a short space.  This adds to the confusion of the situation so we can more understand how the character is actually feeling.  Because it is so fast, we are expected to retain a lot of information in a short amount of time, thus leave us little time to comprehend what is happening.  When you have less time to think threw what is going on, then it tends to have a bigger emotional impact on the reader.