(AGG) About 7.8 percent of all Americans are affected by PTSD at some point in their life. (BS-1) PTSD is a disorder that is caused by tragedies and causes people to change who they are. (BS-2) Tragedies can occur in many ways, the most common that can cause post-traumatic stress disorder is family loss which is how the characters in the novel developed the disorder. (BS-3) Symptoms of the disorder are used in the book to affect Najmah and Nusrat to make them undergo character change. (TS) Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious disorder that can change people's lives; the author added it to make the book and characters seem real and experience change.
(MIP-1) Post-traumatic stress disorder is an effect of war, people who experience tragedies …show more content…
(SIP-A) Najmah had severe and obvious symptoms of PTSD, making her change into a completely different character from how she was portrayed at the beginning of the book. (STEWE-1) Najmah changes herself much throughout the book, “I am no longer the girl Najmah of Golestan, that child who was afraid of leopards. I am afraid of nothing after what I've seen. Neither am I a boy named Shaheed. But I must pretend to be Shaheed if I am to look for my father and brother in Peshawar” (Staples 50). This is personality change, a symptom of PTSD. Najmah will change herself in order to achieve her objective even if these personas she has created are completely different people. (STEWE-2) Najmah shows many symptoms of PTSD, “I am too sad, knowing that it will never be again as it once was...The night before the death of my mother and Habib flashes before me, and I don't even see Bibi Nusrat in the golden light of the kerosene lamp” (Staples 223-224). This is a severe symptom of the disorder that Najmah is experiencing, it is a flashback. She is seeing the tragedy that caused her PTSD over again. (SIP-B) While Nusrat’s symptoms were not as big as Najmah's, she still went through much change throughout her life and she eventually got out of it. (STEWE-1) Nusrat’s symptoms were shown much more during her flashbacks, “Until she met Faiz, she felt nobody but …show more content…
(BS-3) Character change is a major component of Under the Persimmon Tree, and PTSD was used to do that. (BS-2) Many tragedies affect Najmah and Nusrat in the book, they are what made their PTSD harder to handle but the main event that caused their PTSD was family loss. (BS-1) Different people are able to develop the disorder and can develop the symptoms making them different from who they were before the tragedy that caused them to change. (R) Judith Lewis Herman says the recovery to PTSD only happens “within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation,” which is exactly what Najmah, Nusrat, and most other people who have developed PTSD
(MIP-1) Post-traumatic stress disorder is an effect of war, people who experience tragedies …show more content…
(SIP-A) Najmah had severe and obvious symptoms of PTSD, making her change into a completely different character from how she was portrayed at the beginning of the book. (STEWE-1) Najmah changes herself much throughout the book, “I am no longer the girl Najmah of Golestan, that child who was afraid of leopards. I am afraid of nothing after what I've seen. Neither am I a boy named Shaheed. But I must pretend to be Shaheed if I am to look for my father and brother in Peshawar” (Staples 50). This is personality change, a symptom of PTSD. Najmah will change herself in order to achieve her objective even if these personas she has created are completely different people. (STEWE-2) Najmah shows many symptoms of PTSD, “I am too sad, knowing that it will never be again as it once was...The night before the death of my mother and Habib flashes before me, and I don't even see Bibi Nusrat in the golden light of the kerosene lamp” (Staples 223-224). This is a severe symptom of the disorder that Najmah is experiencing, it is a flashback. She is seeing the tragedy that caused her PTSD over again. (SIP-B) While Nusrat’s symptoms were not as big as Najmah's, she still went through much change throughout her life and she eventually got out of it. (STEWE-1) Nusrat’s symptoms were shown much more during her flashbacks, “Until she met Faiz, she felt nobody but …show more content…
(BS-3) Character change is a major component of Under the Persimmon Tree, and PTSD was used to do that. (BS-2) Many tragedies affect Najmah and Nusrat in the book, they are what made their PTSD harder to handle but the main event that caused their PTSD was family loss. (BS-1) Different people are able to develop the disorder and can develop the symptoms making them different from who they were before the tragedy that caused them to change. (R) Judith Lewis Herman says the recovery to PTSD only happens “within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation,” which is exactly what Najmah, Nusrat, and most other people who have developed PTSD