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Sorry To Disrupt The Peace Literary Analysis

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Identity Construction
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, written by Patty Yumi Cottrell, is the one novel that the readers will definitely question about the protagonist, Helen Moran, and have to try hard to understand her character. Helen is complicated; not only her mind but also her action. Every action she has done seem to be useless and usually misdirected. Also, she has different concept about herself differ from other people. These probably make the reader question about Helen that what is she actually be and we explore her while she explores her brother’s life as well; the more she examines her brother’s death, the more she composes her “identity” Helen Moran is a Korean adopted child who was adopted by white American family since she was …show more content…

She is categorized in lacking internal consistency of narrative. She has “no examples, or contain unexplained or unrecognized contradictory statements.” (Psychol, 2011) In the other words, she does not have any memories with her birth parent so she cannot give any certain situation about them to support her personal narrative.
The third, flexibility of the narrative is considered in “the person’s ability to view issues as others might see them.” This level is separated in two kinds: flexible and inflexible adoption narrative. Flexible adoption narrative understand “the complex nature of issues and relationships.” They just leave all things behind and live their lives. Inflexible adoption narrative “adheres rigidly to their story line and consider relationships from one vantage point, their own: ‘They chose for me not to be a part of their lives, I am honoring their wishes.’” (Psychol, 2011) Related to Helen, we might say that she has flexible adoption narrative. From the story, she focus on her present and her past at the time she already lived with her adoptive parents; and she does not mention her birth as if she left everything behind and chose to focus on being

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