Short Story: Tail Affirmation

Loftus argues that people can be shaped to remember their past in different ways. She used a study about getting lost in a Mall to show that individuals can be prompted to recollect the whole events that occurred to them (Loftus 74).

Ender understands that in order for him not to be a target, he needs to stand up for himself. Card designs Ender as a character that destroys his enemy, just hurting the enemy is not enough. Card

Ender has struggled to find his identity several times throughout the story. For example, “I can’t beat them, “ Ender said softly. “I’ll be out there like Mazer Rackham one day, and everybody will be depending on me, and I won’t be able to do it” (p. 241). Ender shows how he starts to doubt both his skills and capabilities as a leader. He feels unfit for the job despite his results in battle school and in Eros with Mazer

Ender was a very strong individual and did not conform, he fought through the hard times even when everyone else doubted him. It is unnecessary to push people over their limit for one’s own desire or wellbeing. Sometimes Ender was pushed too hard by the teachers, and when he finally hit his limit he stopped trying, because he was tired of conforming. Ender thought, “I don’t care anymore... You can keep your game.

Have you ever regretted something you have done? Or did something wrong? One thing you may not have noticed, is that every time you make a mistake, your brain grows. “When we make a mistake, synapses fire. A synapse is an electrical signal that moves between parts of the brain when learning occurs.” Says the website youcubed. One way that many people make mistakes, is by finding their self identity. Making mistakes can lead to learning about yourself. What you like, what you don’t like, and that is how you will find self identity. Many examples of this are in the stories Flowers and Freckle Cream, Things Not Seen, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Each of these stories prove that people learn through their experiences.

What really caused Ender to really think about; the account of people that he can really risk losing people, horse power, and the opponent's strategies and weakness.With the weakness and strategies this can cause the Ender to find the solution. An example in the book , is when Enders tram had to face 2 teams at once. They thought that this wasn't fair but they still managed to win

EMDR consist of 12-15 sessions and information is gotten about the client history, establish rapport, and explain the treatment. The therapist then asks the client questions about visual images of the trauma, the client’s emotional and physiologic reactions to the trauma, unhelpful self-representations, and helpful self-representations (Briere & Scott, 2013). More so, the purpose of EMDR is to reduce the effect of negative emotions or disturbing memories. EMDR engages the client in a two-sided stimulation (i.e. hand taps, eye stimulation by following the movement of an object or audible voices (Briere & Scott, 2013; Eka,

The human mind never wants to recall negative memories. We do not want to remember that time when we were giving a speech in front of a class and we tripped on our words. We never want to remember that time when we were walking through the hallway and suddenly fell over our own feet with our books flying all over the floor. We do not want to remember that time when we were at war and our best friend lost his life, but we got to keep ours. But what we do recall is the moments we arose heroic and overcame an obstacle.

Have you ever thought about the past and wanted that same thing to happen again or wanted to make sure that it would never happen again? Often in a work of Literature characters who are coping with trauma attempt to both repress or revive the past. This trend ends up being expressed in the two novels, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. To repress the past a character would try to prevent what had happened from happening again while reviving the past would be to bring back what had previously happened. In A Streetcar Named Desire the main character, Blanche DuBois who is a teacher ends up moving from Mississippi to live with her sister, Stella Kowalski, in New Orleans and eventually has problems with Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close the main character, Oskar Schell is dedicated to finding the lock that fits a key that his father who had died on September 11 at the World Trade Center had given him. The trend of both repressing and reviving the past when coping with trauma is evident in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer when Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tries to find the lock that matches a mysterious key and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire has to be reminded of her past by her brother in law Stanley.

Farrell argues, “Merely telling one’s story of trauma, however is not enough to begin the healing process” (186). Flashbacks are more than a memory, even if one tells others their flashbacks, one still would not understand the meaning or the significance of the intrusive memory. According to Caruth, “The flashbacks or traumatic reenactment conveys , that is both the truth of an event, and the truth of its incomprehensibility” (Caruth 153). In order for one to understand and heal from their trauma, one

I have gone through some hard things in my life. I have some regrets about the way I handled things in the past, but remembering how I felt after I made those choices will help me to not make those same mistakes again. I can remember how my reaction to certain situations would cause problems for myself and other people. By remembering things from my past, it has helped me to not react or handle situations the same way that I used to. Memory has also given me many good things, such as remembering things I did with people I don’t get to see as much anymore, or even remembering how happy I was when something really good happened.

Ender is finally free and he must make up for all that he did while under someone else’s control. Valentine, however, believes something different from Ender when she says, “’Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life Ender’” (241). Ender does not realize it, but fear of failing and constant pressure from others control the outcomes to his decisions. In the end, Ender may not completely agree with

It often comes to pass that a person visits their past to try to relive a time in their life. However, as it will become clear to anyone wanting to attempt this, repeating the past is not so easy as trying to go back to how life was before. In fact, it is not even possible. One cannot repeat the past because situations in life, other people, and we ourselves permanently change as time goes on. There are events in people’s lives that are permanent; it is impossible for a person to “take back” something that is out of their control.

I don’t remember much of my childhood. It’s been said that when you experience trauma, your brain has a defense mechanism to help you forget it ever happened. This is both helpful and hurtful in terms of carrying on. I don’t remember much of my mother before her alcoholism began to control her. I wish I could remember what she was like; I’ve been told she was a wonderful mother, though it’s very hard for me to believe that now.

Determination played a big part in the success of many of the characters’ goals. Ender in battle school used determination to help him succeed in graduating and going into command school. He was determined to make his voice heard and earn respect in battle school. Ender and the students in battle school needed and used determination to survive and be successful. However, earlier when Ender and his launch group were first introduced to the battle room, they had a lot of difficulties moving around. He needed to win and wanted to influence his army, “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault” (Card 186). During the battles, Ender showed he was determined to get better and immediately