Trauma In Mornings In Jenin

Trauma In the novel Mornings in Jenin, there is an astounding amount of trauma that occurs both to the characters of the story and land that they live on. This includes the loss of the land on which these people lived, and it also included the trauma of losing the ones that they loved. An indescribable amount of people were affected by the trauma that occurred and that is shown through the different characters of the novel. Mornings in Jenin describes the similarities, differences, and kinds of trauma that affected the characters during that time. The main character of the novel is named Amal. She is the youngest child of her family. She has two older siblings named Yousef and Ismal (Abulhawa 50). When she was young, the Israeli soldiers

They met when they were in elementary school and had a very close bond. When Amal moved to the United States her and Huda lost a lot of their contact with each other. Huda stayed in Palestine in the same home she had lived in the time that they were together there. Huda had three sons. Two that were twins named Jamil and Jamal and the youngest named Mansour. When they were young they spent a lot of time together and were having fun throwing rocks at an Israeli soldier's truck. This resulted in Huda’s son, Jamal, being shot and killed (Abulhawa 294). This was very heartbreaking for Huda because her son had been killed right in the arms of Jamil. No mother wants to see her son pass away, especially not when he gets killed in the arms of another one of their sons (Abulhawa 295). While Amal was back in Palestine visiting with her brother David, she visited Huda and her family. The Israeli soldiers decided to come and attack their land again. This was know as the Second Intifada. So, once again Huda and Amal found themselves crouching in a hole in the kitchen floor clinging to each other for dear life (Abulhawa 301). This time, Amal was there with her daughter Sara in her arms, just like her baby cousin Aisha was many years earlier. It was a while later when all of them had realized it had been quiet and calm outside for quite some time. Amal heard a truck outside and decided it had to be some sort of medical help, and she got up from the hole and went out to gather supplies (Abulhawa 304). It was not. Amal ran right into an Israeli military truck. Huda and Sara were still in the hole when Amal came running back very alarmed. The Israelis came over to the hole in which they were hiding and fired a bullet (Abulhawa 307). That bullet was intended for her Amal’s daughter, Sara, but instead hit her (Abulhawa 311). Huda now had to suffer the loss of another person, her best friend from her childhood, right in