Semester Essay Thesis

The themes of trauma and memory replacement are evident in "Sorrow of War" and "The Things They Carried". Trauma often creates un-true memories for the victim to understand a traumatic event. However in storytelling, it can be argued that it is false story telling because the memory is in-correct. Others would argue however, that it is not the story teller's fault that they tell false stories due to their traumatic stresses. This essay will discuss how "false storytelling" is about getting the point across. As long as the story has a point, its fine that it is untrue.

Since the beginning of time people have been telling each other stories. Stories at one point where the only means of communication between the miniscule civilizations. When stories where the the entertainment of the week. The means in which children all over the world would fall asleep. Has the story telling changed from then till now? does it shape who we are? with out story telling the world would be a very different place. The means in which a story is told is different, but story telling is of the utmost importance in the modern day and the past.

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Memory and Trauma: Post-Modern and Historic

It is a difference between historic memory and post-modern memory relates to trauma. Historic memory is the process of remembering something that happened in the past. A post-modern memory is a memory that is an unresolved traumatic memory. Wide Sargasso Sea, The Things They Carried, and The Seduction of History: Trauma, Re-Memory, and The Ethic of The Real all have one thing common: violence. Each experience with violence creates trauma. Their memory of this trauma affects both their historic memory and their post-modern memory because when a traumatic event happend, you cannot remember everything than. For example, on page 387, Flanagan defines Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a disorder “in which the encoding of memory rather than its retrieval is affected.”

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Thea Egolf Milinairw

SE thesis/ introductory paragraph

nov/ 17/09

Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre and Jean Ryce novel Wide Saragoso Sea are viewed in an aspect of the feminism condition. Both protagonists show different, but similar sides of feminism . It is reflectance of the social choice that they engage . Each character helps build the story to be viewed in a feministic manor, giving the reader a clear understanding of what the author was trying to perceive. in each novel gender played a role that causes the novels standards to be at high risk with society view.

Semester Essay Thesis

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Due: 11/20/09