This Soul is known and loved in the Akashic Records as a bright being who brings Joy to the people around her. Her presence uplifts the atmosphere.
However, the Divine Joy is hidden under the scars of a victim.
This Soul came a long way. She has passed through dark periods of the history of the humankind.
She was victimised, not once but many times. These experiences have imprinted on her consciousness and may be manifesting as fears and illogical thoughts of insecurity about self, about her life.
She was born in a family that deeply loves her. It 's a form of healing on a soul level. Parental love helps her to open her talents and abilities that may have been suppressed.
Healing for her means to learn to trust the word again, to stop
“Fear seems to be the only thing she feels anymore.” (66) She feels paranoid everywhere she goes even in her apartment. She is also thinking about what happened in Iraq. The main character keeps recalling what happened in Iraq with the haji and her friend Kavanagh. She feels guilt that
These tarnished relationships make her incapable of having external resources to cope with the excessive amounts of trauma she endures
Now at 12 years old she still carries around her childhood trauma. Ever since the incident she has had trouble with everyday life, that is until she got a therapist. After the course of a few years, she had begun healing. Then one day during a session with the therapist he suggested that Cassandra should go to summer camp to improve on her social skills. Ever since then she had been loathing for the day to come.
She started off as an insecure woman. Her heart was worn from heartbreak from the lack of reciprocated love and the insecurities that haunted her every day. She was a woman of God but that did not mean her life would be easy. It was quite the opposite. She grew up with a family that had a heart for others.
So, because she does not feel she can have someone who will understand her and not punish her for what happened, she does not speak. Her parent’s behavior toward her and each other make herself feel like she is a disappointment. Her mental state of mind is unstable and is struggling to process what happened to her. When her family and the people around her start pulling her down, she does not feel as strong and confident to stand up for herself and to face her so to speak demons. A perfect example of this is “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist.
This delineates the theme because she chose to seek help to heal her
Although she does not offer subjective opinions on her experiences, these experiences clearly affect her in a negative manner. She attempts to disconnect herself from the world around her, but instead becomes a silent victim of the turmoil of the chaotic
While she was going through her identity forming process, she also learned that she has to defend herself by emotionally separating from mother, who has been the center of everything in her life. When she realizes that she is
This quote connects to how certain anxieties can ignite, for instance, since she has murdered people and will never be able to make love anymore,
Being a woman in the early twentieth century, she simply followed what her husband told her. She did not have her own voice and kept her thoughts to herself. With that being said, it is as if her identity is simply that of the average woman during her time. However, the days she spends in confinement go by, the identity of that woman drifts away and she is overtaken by the identity of her own mental illness. As said in Diana Martin’s journal on “Images in Psychiatry”, while the narrator in isolation she becomes “increasingly despondent and nervous”.
When she was young, she could not process the way her father raised and treated her, so she believed everything he said. When she is able to understand, her tone changes and becomes clinical and critical remembering the way he constantly let her
The trauma of her past conflicted her, and the inability to get over her pain caused her to believe that she’d never succeed nor truly be able to love; she later committed
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
She was an isolated soul that was made to believe she should be kept hiding from the outside world. Being discriminated against her looks not only brought her will to live down but caused her to see the world a place that she did not belong in. This caused her to have depression. A person should not be treated for how they look or how they are. Doing things such as discriminating or isolating a person could very well lead them to believe that they have no part or say in the world they live in.
When she was growing up she went in and out of loving her religious life, but also sinning because she was caught up with friends and popularity. She always found her way back to her religious life. When she became sick she had inner experiences of joy and peace and that brought back her faith that God can make everything