In the novel, Solar Storms, violence plays a key and essential role of the story’s plot. The reader is able to observe both the traditional ways in which Angela's foremothers attempt to battle it as well as the current struggle of Angela's relatives to keep their land and water rights from the white government. Bush, whom was Angela's step-grandmother, informs the reader about the Native traditions when she tries to defend Angela from her mother, Hannah, abusive ways. Being convinced that Hannah Wing, Angela's mother, is a troubled woman with many ‘demons’ in her, while viewing the vulnerable and unsafe Angel in her custody, Bush prepares a mourning feast in order to protect Angela from Hannah’s nuisance. Nonetheless, Bush’s traditional methods did not save and protect Angela from her awful childhood with Hannah. Half of Angela's face is bitten off by her mother—a wound that may demonstrates multiple meanings as Angela finds out more about the circumstances that led to such violence. Agnes remembers the event that occurred to Angela by saying:
Bush, the wife of your grandpa, had struggles with your mother's cold world. She tried to keep you with her, to protect you from the violence that was your mother. There was a time she heard you crying in the house when you were not there. I heard it, too, your voice, crying for help, or I would not have believed her. It was a chilling sound, your soul crying out, and Bush turned desperate as a caged animal. She fought for you. In that battle with what amounted to human evil, Bush didn't win, but she didn't lose either. It was a tie, a fragile balance that could tip at any time. That was the reason she cooked the mourning feast. (Hogan 13)
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...ghter as a sense of release. However, most of the characters in the novel, especially Angela, demonstrate strength and are able to heal, which might seem a bit relieving to the novel's reader.
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• Brice, Jennifer. "Earth as Mother, Earth as Other in Novels by Silko and Hogan." Critique 39.2 (1998): 127-138.
• Fisher-Wirth, Ann. "Storied Earth, Storied Lives: Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Rick Bass's The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness. From the Center of Tradition: Critical Perspectives on Linda Hogan. Ed. Barbara J. Cook Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2003. 53-66.
Owen, Narcissa, and Karen L. Kilcup. A Cherokee woman's America memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Denise Grady’s (2006) article sound a strong wake up call for the American government and for the American public to re-evaluate their guiding principles towards war in Iraq and the continued presence of the American soldiers in the Iraqi soil. Grady delineated the enormous damages the war had costs in not only monetary terms but also the future of thousands of promising young and talented men and women sent in the Iraq War; that had no clear benefits to them or the American people.
Historical trauma is described to be an experience or event that have caused a generation or individual harm.
One of my favorite songs I learned in Primary as a young LDS child was “A Child’s Prayer.” It’s opening lines are “Heavenly Father, are you really there? And do you hear and answer every child’s prayer?” For some children in the United States, they are in such destitute conditions they may doubt there is hope, or anyone above that is listening. Abusive parents, a life in poverty, or sexual abuse are only some of the problems some children in the United States are facing right now. The LDS Church places immense importance on families, and healthy familial relationships– Jesus Christ himself taught little children with love and patience, and in Matthew 19:14 he said “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is
Meyer, Michael. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 2189.
Although none of the novels were wrote in conjunction, each has a link towards the other regarding abuse, both sexual and spousal, as well as class oppression and the manual labor that was a necessity for survival among black women. By examining present society, one can observe the systems of oppressions that have changed for the better as well as those that continue to devastate the lives of many women today.
Since the first day they met, everyone knew that Katie and Ted would stay together forever. He was always telling everyone how he loved her and that she was the perfect wife and mother. However, behind closed doors was another story. Ted was not a kind man in “his” house, he was verbally abusive and constantly accusing Katie of cheating on him. These fits of rage were promptly followed by flowers and apologies. Katie was abused by Ted, however, she did love him and he did promise never to hurt her again.
With the final lines give us a better understanding of her situation, where her life has been devoured by the children. As she is nursing the youngest child, that sits staring at her feet, she murmurs into the wind the words “They have eaten me alive.” A hyperbolic statement symbolizing the entrapment she is experiencing in the depressing world of motherhood.
Crane, Stephen. "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky." Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. Ed. Thomas Arp. 7th ed. Fort Worth:Harcourt, 1998.
The United States military continues to engage in one of the longest periods of combat operations in our nation’s history. One of the results is an increase in the amount of persons suffering Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) (2000), a precursor to PTSD is the experience of an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others. Grossman (2009) argues that an additional factor, the emotional and spiritual response to killing another human being, also takes a tremendous toll on the mental health of returning soldiers. Forty-eight to sixty–five percent of soldiers returning from Operation Enduring Freedom have reported killing an enemy combatant, while 14–28% have reported killing a noncombatant (Hoge, Castro, Messer, McGurk, Cotting, & Koffman, 2004). This paper will discuss Grossman’s (2009) views on the psychological cost of killing others in combat.
Let's talk about absolutely ridiculous pronouncements people make that either ignore simple fact or border on insanity. How about this one: Violence is no way to settle anything! Evidence suggests that violence is a very effective way of settling things. How about a few examples? In 1776, violence settled whether the thirteen colonies would be independent or remain under King George's thumb. In 1865, violence settled whether there'd be a Confederacy and a Union or just a Union. Between 1941 and 1945, violence settled whether Japan would control the Far East and whether Germany would control Europe. Violence settled whether American Indians owned and controlled the land now call United States or whether it would be European settlers and their progeny. In fact, violence has settled the question of land use-rights virtually everywhere.
Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner. The Western Heritage. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Like most people in her social sphere, the woman takes for granted the civility and restraints that have kept her, prior to her attack, comfortably exempt from the personal chaos that violence unleashes. All of...
Her family life is depicted with contradictions of order and chaos, love and animosity, conventionality and avant-garde. Although the underlying story of her father’s dark secret was troubling, it lends itself to a better understanding of the family dynamics and what was normal for her family. The author doesn’t seem to suggest that her father’s behavior was acceptable or even tolerable. However, the ending of this excerpt leaves the reader with an undeniable sense that the author felt a connection to her father even if it wasn’t one that was desirable. This is best understood with her reaction to his suicide when she states, “But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb.” (pg. 399)
These people face violence as outsiders begin to overtake their homelands. They typically end up loosing their land to logging, mining and other large scale industries. Depending on the location of the tribe they could be shot at especially in parts of Brazil and Peru. However, diseases that aren't deadly to more advanced civilizations could kill more indigenous people than any bullet ever could. Normally at least half the tribe will survive the first stage of contact with outsiders. The next aggression against the tribes is to take as much of their land as possible. Thus resulting in poverty which correlates with malnutrition, and other illnesses such as tuberculosis. The third and final stage is where the most suffering takes place,and the citizens have become extremely poor by this stage.