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nickle-pickle
nickle-pickle
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What is the identity development in this story?

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Posted by nickle-pickle on Sunday October 26, 2008 at 1:27 AM and tagged with identity, the red convertible.

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  1. axwill
    axwill

    I think the character development is the change in Henry before and after Vietnam. PTSD causes a numbing, an inability to feel or express emotion. There are other symptoms such as hypervigilance, quick to anger, an inability to talk about the experience with friends and family members. They just have no way of understanding. The vet feels isolated and often is. Especially after VN when they were spit at and ridiculed. Henry returns, a stranger to his family and his family is now strange to him. The family tries to understand and help him cope but while Henry has undergone this massive life-changing event, his family is still the same.

    For a sense of what drives the numbness, see the attached poem by a VN vet.

    Sources:
    http://pzzzz.tripod.com/nuthin.html

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    Posted by axwill on Sunday November 16, 2008 at 9:11 AM