Trauma In The Novel 'The Suspect' By L. R.

Antwone Fisher is a character who is very hostile and antisocial. He feels alone and confused by previous events that occurred during his childhood. Fisher is very withdrawn, unforgiving, and apprehensive. The constant battle of flashbacks denoting verbal, physical, and sexual abuse frequently interferes with his everyday life. The diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder explain the details of Antwone’s life in its entirety. Antwone meets the following criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition: “Directly experiences a traumatic event, experiences extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event, recurrent, involuntary distressive memories” (271).

Homicide always will be an aspect of life, whether it is in the 16th century, 21st century or in the future. At times of extreme stress, people may turn to murder as an outlet of a greater problem they cannot fix or control. Presently, homicide has a greater value in society due to popular culture references through the media such as television, film and writing; society constantly has homicide and murder in the subconscious. In David M. Buss’ findings in The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill,

This shows the relationship between traumatic events, psychotic disorders, and the existence of PTSD in those clients (Putts, 2014, p.83). The percentage of sexual and or physical abuse among clients with more than 10 hospitalization and 11 psychotic episodes are even greater. According to Putts (2014), 40% of those clients suffered sexual abuse and 60% suffered physical assault by a relative (p.83). Putts expressed his concern with the clinicians’ lack of recognition of the relationship between trauma and psychotic disorders, and how this contributes to the lack of diagnosis of PTSD in this population (Putts, 2014, p.83).

Tonier Cain, a nationally- known public speaker and traumatic event educator has inspired many women across the nation, she tells her story to audiences filled with men and women who specialize in substance abuse programs, mental health agencies, corrections facilities as well as trauma survivors and many more. Tonier, also known as Neen was introduced to the jail system at an early age and has a criminal record of 83 arrest followed by 66 convictions. Cain’s story is empowering, inspirational and unforgettable. As of today, her efforts to uplift women who have experienced trauma has given her a position as the team leader for the newly funded National Center for Trauma.

The damage and trauma of the first world war had devastating impacts for countless individuals all across the world. It caused the destruction of entire cities and claimed the lives of millions. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road focuses on the stories of three Cree-Canadians and their experiences during the great war both on the battlefield and the home front. In order to shed light on the often historically disregarded sacrifices and contributions of First Nations people during the first world war, Joseph Boyden uses symbolism to illustrate the impact of trauma from the First Nation’s perspective in his novel Three Day Road. The lynx embodies Niska’s strength in the face of adversity, the number three represents Xavier’s difficulty to reconcile

In a rare twist of events, the founder of Liberty Reserve, a virtual currency for cybercriminals, pleaded guilty last week of “running a massive money laundering enterprise,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal division.

In Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Izzy, who is a teen is struck with a heart-breaking disability after an accident. Throughout the novel she fights through her injury, remaining strong and determined. Although, times got rough and sad, she stayed positive in several aspects. After losing her left leg, she was left with various difficult adjustments to make. However, Izzy was traumatized by the accident, leaving her with a life changing disability. Her family and friends’ reactions to her amputation of her leg were sometimes demeaning; furthermore, they rejected her disability in many aspects. Izzy’s father and brothers rejected her after the accident, they wouldn’t visit her or acknowledge during this hard time. Furthermore, when her father arrived to

If an event that occurs such as rape, assault, being held at knifepoint, often direct experiences with traumatic events, it would be right to assume that these individuals were more likely to experience PTSD or related symptoms. Due to the nature of such experiences, it is very likely that these will be remembered and every day experiences may trigger flashbacks, hallucinations or panic attacks, which can prove detrimental to everyday life. If these incidents are reported, follow up action such as counselling can possibly prevent full blown symptoms which are often very difficult to deal with and can produce enormous amounts of stress and confusion upon the sufferer. Even still we cannot pinpoint the extent of an event to particular symptoms or a

The Melting Pot of Intolerance In “Creating a Criminal” by Michael Kingston, the California penal code is examined. It discusses the hypocrisy and unreasonableness of the code which states that any person that kills “traditionally domesticated animals”(Kingston) for the purpose of food will be held responsible. Although the penal code seems like it’s meant for the average American, it subliminally affects people from different cultural backgrounds that consume America’s common pets. The penal code marginalizes predominantly the Vietnamese community.

This story explains the Tomas’ life. He is a teenager maybe he is sixteen or seventeen

Also, most of these women who survived the genocide experienced personal trauma resulting from the injuries suffered from all the violence done against them and their families. In the documentary, “Worse than War, we saw a group of women who recall how traumatized it was for them to see Hutus exterminated their brothers and parents. After this incident they recalled in the video that they had hard time trying to understand how their neighborhood were able to killed their relatives. By watching the video, I could see in the of these women how disturbed, and traumatized they were. They were survivors of the genocide but yet they trauma and humiliation they experienced at the hands of Hutus were still present in their lives. This will have a direct

L. Frank Baum, the author of “What Children Want” and “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” wrote another successful story about female detectives. The idea of female characters became more and more popular during Civil War and First World War. Nancy Drew, as a female, has become the icon of America. The publisher, Edward Stratemeyer and his syndicate of ghostwriters dreamed about the character of female detectives. Baum, for a long time stuck in mystery stories, finally write a “Mary Louise” which enlightened by his mother-in-law Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the most remarkable voice for women’s suffrage.

She had quickly set up her own private science laboratory in her private basement the Institute had provided her. She started spending time on the experiment and began to experience again with little success. Weeks passed by and still no success.

Golden Age of detective fiction involved the genre apex that embodied different relevant elements that made a form appealing. It involves the collection of the created atmosphere in novels, the complex solved puzzle. The puzzle was solved by sheer with or with no modern forensic science help and the nostalgia that provoked the people to continue reading the novel. Even as authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe gave birth to the modern story of detection, the Golden age authors like Agatha Christie, have failed to shift away from fashion. Different writers some with experience like Christie fell by the way side and out of favour. The setting of this era is seen as quintessentially English, and was expected to be somewhat predictable and formulaic. For example,the country house of English cruise ships, trains, and the sleepy English village were personified by Miss Marple of Agatha Christie (Rzepka, 2005). Different golden age writers sort for personal experience for the settings and the background of the plots. For example, Ngaio Marsh, a famous theatrical producer mostly utilized theater as one backdrop. The freeman Crofts Wills, who was a railway engineer was delighted and bored his audience different aspects that related to the railway. Even though the different influential age detective fiction was produced and written in the early period, the prodigious output in the different authors implies that the consistency and the quality were suffered

Tannert-Smith discusses trauma and the psychological implications it has on a victim being portrayed similarly within most novels on the subject of trauma. Tannert-Smith found one main commonality within trauma based literature to be the mental and social limits trauma is portrayed to have on a victim. The essay portrays the narratives as being a window into the writer’s “personal mythologies.” The writer must keep the adolescent audience in mind when producing literature about trauma on adolescents. Tannert-Smith argues that the writer’s perspective on trauma is impressionable. The notion that “the traumatic event destroys the belief that one can be oneself in relation to others” in literature is impressionable on an adolescent audience and may cause the reader to believe that the loss of identity is inevitable and perhaps irreversible. The essay continues to unravel the novel Speak and its emphasis on Melinda’s fragile sense of identity, and the psychological and physical repercussions of rape. Tannert-Smith concludes that there is a repetition in literature of what a rape victim goes through; “trauma as a mode of departure and suggests the possibility of change or progression.” Tannert-Smith challenges the writer to