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In eight pages this paper examines the psychological condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder within the context of a character from each of these short stories. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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frightening single violent incident or event either threatened or carried out that takes place over a prolonged period of time, causing prolonged anxiety. Individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder
will often relive the terrifying situation over and over in their minds long after the danger has passed. The constant life-and-death stress soldiers are forced to constantly endure in
combat was the first and most common form of PTSD, which was first identified during the First World War as shell shock (Dikel et al 69). In three popular
American and Native American short stories - Louise Erdrichs The Red Convertible, Ernest Hemingways Soldiers Home, and Tim OBriens How to Tell a True War Story, - there are soldiers
who appear to be suffering from some type of post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from combat. While the wartime actual experiences themselves may have been markedly different, the lasting impact
on these soldiers personalities and interactions with others are quite similar. PTSD researchers have learned that the type of trauma the
soldier experienced, its severity, and its duration each have a profound impact upon the individual (Dikel et al 69). The symptoms are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at
some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized person and is also a factor, as is personality, heredity, and childhood behavior (Dikel et al
69). Young North Dakota Chippewa Henry Lamartine, the featured protagonist in The Red Convertible, was little more than a boy when he was drafted into the Vietnam War in
1970. He endured nine months of combat and spent a year-and-a-half as a POW. As his brother Lyman, the storys narrator, and person closest to Henry noted, he
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