Childhood Trauma

In this paragraph Darl describes how his mother felt towards his siblings before she died. He focuses on his mother and Jewel’s relationship, where Jewel is constantly tired and can not complete his daily chores. Addie gives Jewel’s jobs to Dewey Dell and Vardaman, and gives Jewel less to do. She prepares him special foods and hides it for him. At this time in the book, readers do not know the reason for Addie’s favoritism of Jewel but they find out when Darl says “. . . fix him special things and hide them. And that may be when I first found it out…” (Faulkner 130). Darl mentions that Addie believed that deceit was one of the worst things. This begs the question of her teachings and her personal morals. If she believed that deceiving someone

My first impression of Jewel was that i could relate to him more than any other character. He has a hard time expressing his emotions, which I do too. Jewel also seems to love his mother a lot, probably because he feels isolated in his family and feel as if he can only get close to his mother. Essentially he is an only child, like me and I sort off know how he feels. Jewel feels the same about horses as i feel about working out. Whenever i feel overwhelmed with emotions, working out in the gym always helps, and Jewel does the same with his horse. I liked Jewel and his characteristics right from the start.

However, Jewel has a much different view of their journey. Jewel sees it as a way to make up to his mother for not being there when she passed (Faulkner 48). Therefore, he does everything in his power to get her there . . . including running into a burning barn and nearly drowning to save her coffin (Faulkner 154 and 221). These acts, although seemingly heroic, arise as truly selfish and shallow. These shallow acts can exist through Jewels “pale eyes” which look “like wood” (Faulkner 4). This simile compares Jewel to a simple substance which mirrors how his actions towards his mother are self-absorbed. Wood is two dimensional and shallow. When Jewels refuses to let the past go and continuously holds on to the idea of upsetting his mother, he in turn works for his own benefit. Jewel seeks his mother's approval out of self absorption and not out of love; he acts shallow and hollow like wood. In turn, Jewel ignores his siblings and continues to push towards

While, this may seem like the kind hearted thing to do, Jewel is settled on doing this because he wishes to prove that he loves his mother more than anyone else in the family. As a direct recipient of Anse’s cruelty, Jewel finds himself being more of father figure to the family than anyone else. This responsibility puts Jewel under massive amounts of stress and leads to him pushing the family on the mission despite the losses they had already taken and the disrespectful state that Addie’s body was in. For example. When another Bundren child, Darl, comes to the realization that there is nothing to gain from their situation, he takes matters into his own hands. After placing Addie’s coffin in a barn, he sets the building ablaze. In a quick response, Jewel jumps into action; putting the fire out, saving the animals, and rescuing Addie’s coffin. While this action may seem heroic, it is actually one of the most cruel performances throughout the novel. By saving Addie’s coffin Jewel is not only positively influencing his personal goal of demonstrating his love for his mother, he is also enabling this absolute failure of a trip to

Jewel Bundren, the middle child in the Bundren household, lives a very complicated life due to his distinct differences with his siblings. Jewel is a young adult whose aspirations and wishes do not relate to the others in his family. Although Jewel is a part of the Bundren family, his only tie to the family is his mother, Addie. Jewel looks nothing like the Bundrens. He clearly resembles his father, Minister Whitfield. This is apparent when Darl describes Jewel as having “pale eyes and a wooden face” (Faulkner 4). Jewel is seemingly taller and stronger than Darl, as he is quite a hard-worker. This is especially true when he is working with horses, his main love.

Although Jewel has always felt very different from his family members he has always had a strong love for his mother, although it is not perceived that way. Barnes points out, “In the episode where he exchanges his horse for the team of mules to replace the team destroyed in the river, Jewel reveals the extent of his active devotion to his mother, which itself meets the needs of the entire family.” (Barnes, “Faulkner’s Jewel: Logos and the Word Made Flesh”). When Addie’s body was in danger Jewel was the child to act although he wanted nothing to do with the rest of the family. Jewel is dealing with his grief for his mother by completely taking it on which is why Jewel is experiencing the most pain. Without Addie, Jewel now feels that he has

Jewel is the son of Addie and Minister Whitfield. He is not like the other children and his mother favors him. Darl and Jewel have a very difficult relationship, because Darl likes to remind him that he really is not apart of the family. Jewel has a horse that his most prized possession which Darl tries to burn in the barn fire. Jewel saves his mother from the fire. He is more of a loner than the rest of the family, but his love for his mother exceeds what the other children hold for her. After she is gone, he really does not belong to this family even less than when she was alive and he knows

Have you heard a story that have selfish in the theme of the story that affected everything about the necklace and the bet how both of this character do things that they have to go through a lot of things and both of them wasted their 10 years of their life.

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Challenges have varied throughout my life in both health complications and society itself. Early trauma has conflicted my mom for sometime whose brothers died in a horrendous drowning accident in 1979 . As life progressed and I came into the world, drug addiction and other illnesses manifested in our outside family, eventually making its way to my older sister. These events at a young age helped me understand reality faster than a normal person.

Since beginning the Early Childhood Trauma project little has not surprised me. When we first discussed the project and learned that the men volunteered to participate in this study due to personal desire I was shocked. Maybe it is due to my personal biases, but I would never expect these men, who have mainly negative experiences with institutions to participate in an institutionally based intervention project. The men volunteering for this project indicated that I should attempt to limit guiding my process by preconceived notions and instead be as partial as possible. My lack of understanding, misconceptions and absence of personal experience that relates to these topics no doubt is partially why I find the majority of the information surprising. However, the experience of our first meeting, which I am examining here, was surprising for a different set of reasons. There were several moments during our meeting with DeAndre, Luis, Angle, Junito and Ron I would classify as 'disorienting', and I will reflect and synthesize them in the following paper. They apply to atmosphere, unforeseen commonalities and knowledge,

Studying child trauma has become increasingly popular to gain a wider understanding of the issue. It is estimated that around one in three children exposed to trauma do develop PTSD (Fletcher, 2003). Child PTSD has been widely observed in children who witness violent crimes (Schwarz & Kowalski, 1991) or whom have survived severe traumatic events. Children directly or indirectly exposed to war conflict experience a variety of stressors, and many develop both short-term and long-term post-traumatic stress reactions (Barenbaum, Ruchkin & Schwab‐Stone, 2004). Common reactions after a traumatic experience include; fear, numbness, anger, change in sleep and appetite, nightmares, avoidance of certain situations and some also experience feelings of

Childhood emotional abuse (CEA) appears to be more novel in the research world in comparison to physical and sexual abuse. However, with the research that has been conducted, there are clear suggestions that CEA has similar, if not more severe, consequences to childhood physical abuse (CPA) and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) (Gibb, Chelminski, & Zimmerman, 2007). For instance, research by Gibb and associates (2007) found that participants who reported experiencing CEA were more likely to also have major depressive disorder and social phobia, than those who reported experiencing CPA or CSA. The research by Gibb et al. suggests that CEA may be more detrimental than CPA or CSA to the psychological development of a child. However, what is missing

A number of children around the world are commonly exposed to some form of trauma which can include physical, sexual and emotional abuse (Wethington et al., 2008). This paper will be focusing on children between the ages of four to twelve years old who had experienced trauma. For that reason, the paper will be focusing on art and play therapy as being effective in working with traumatized children. This paper will begin with the discussion of the importance of knowing and having an understanding of how trauma affects children along with being aware of approaches that can be used including art and play therapy. From there, the paper will get in detail about trauma including what it is and what kind of impact it can have on children who have

For adolescents who are struggling with stress and the reminders of a traumatic event, the negative effects or consequences of one disorder can compound the problems of another. Exposure to traumatic life experiences such as physical abuse, sexual assault, victimization and psychological problems such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have been known to significantly increase adolescent substance abuse. This proposal will attempt to evaluate the exposure of these traumatic life experiences and show how its negative effects can be predictors of continued or increase adolescent substance abuse.