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The theme of struggling to overcome past trauma in Chapter 7 shows when she states that she didn’t think they would find Bing. She believes it was her fault that Bing was lost and unable to overcome her trauma, she just believes Bing is lost forever and he ended up lost forever. Like before, currently Rose believes that the divorce is due to her fault and unable to overcome the problem and consumed by the regret from before, she doesn’t believe the marriage can be saved.

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Rose connects her past trauma to her present situation in a way that does not allow her to move forward. She remembers how she lost her brother at sea, in which she was responsible for. Now, this ties into being responsible in making decisions for her marriage which is crumbling. In this childhood incident, Rose had no hope in finding her brother and she feels that there is also no hope in healing her marriage.

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Rose connects her past trauma to her present by comments she “never expected to find Bing” much like she believes now she “will never find a way to save [her] marriage” (Tan 139). This proves to be a good example of the struggle to overcome past trauma as we see how Rose uses her past fears and traumas to make assumptions about her present. Her inability to move past the pain and loss in her past due to the trauma it brought causes her to feel the same pain now and have no hope because of how it ended last time with her brother.

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The connection is that in her past trauma where she used to watch her brother and now he’s gone and he is not gonna come back and that relates to the marriage saying that it’s never gonna happen and be a thing again.

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The divorce she is going through in the present reminds her of the trauma of losing her brother. The loss of her brother lead to her having struggles with responsibility because she was responsible of him. Due to what happened she now thinks she has no way to save her marriage just as she had no way to save her brother.

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The theme of her struggling affects her by her only wanting to do things herself and not really on anyone else help.

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Gabriel larriu, Matthew B., Mariella Infante, Kaylee Gonzales

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Gabriel larriu, Matthew B., Mariella Infante, Kaylee Gonzales

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The connection is her acceptance of her brother being gone and her knowing that their is no way in saving her marriage. The quote shows this through saying how she never expected to find bing and how she knows their is no way to fix her marriage.

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Ryan Flores, Milani Martinez, and Cameron Cabera

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Ryan Flores, Milani Martinez, and Cameron Cabera

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The connection between the question and the quote is she is relating her past trauma to her events in her present day life.The quote shows she never truly got over the trauma she experienced.

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In the quote she is explaining how her trauma of not being able to save her brother is just like how she can't save her marriage now. She has to accept the fact that she can't save her marriage just like she wasn't able to save her brother. She now struggles with responsibility because of the trauma she endured with her brother. She doesn't want to take responsibility in her marriage so now it's falling apart.

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The theme of connecting her past trauma with her present trauma is how she says that in both cases, only you can help yourself from falling all over again.

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She struggles with responsibility in her relationship with her husband because in the past she was responsible from watching her brother. He ended up falling into the water because she wasn't paying enough attention to him when it was her responsibility to. This leads to her struggling to take responsibility for her failing marriage.

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The connection is that in her past trauma she accepts the fact that she won’t be able to find her brother she knows that he’s long gone by now and there’s no bringing him back. While in her marriage she was knew there was no chance of saving her marriage, and she doesn’t believe it can be saved after her and her ex-husband’s argument.