Trauma in YA Fiction by Sonya Andermahr https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1 Drawing on any trauma concept encountered on the module, briefly describe the depiction of trauma in 'The Book Thief' or 'More Than This'. en-us 2017-12-18 13:15:49 UTC 2025-10-02 17:51:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. Think about genre and narrative form and how they relate to the representation of trauma for a young adult readership. sonyajand https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936024 2018-05-01 16:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936024 2. How does trauma affect character portrayal and the construction of identity? sonyajand https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936316 2018-05-01 16:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936316 3. Identify the different types of traumatic experience and how they are represented. sonyajand https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936480 2018-05-01 16:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936480 4. How the does the novel treat the journey from acting out to working through? Is the young adult trauma healed or palliated by the novel's resolution? sonyajand https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936629 2018-05-01 16:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256936629 Genre: YA/crossover ; historical novel; indirect relation to Holocaust literature; "magic realism"; supernatural/fantastic element; Bildungsroman; coming-of-age; trauma novel; illustrated/graphic novel https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256977574 2018-05-01 18:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256977574 Dani: narrative form: multi-layered narratives, multiple stories, scope of atrocities. Images as palimpsest, written over Mein Kampf. Importance of words: wounding, witnessing etc. https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256983102 2018-05-01 18:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256983102 Trauma of war: death of brother, foster parents, parallels but not equivalences? https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256987702 2018-05-01 18:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256987702 Learning to read and stealing books; Max creating books; constructing stories; "scriptotherapy" (Henke); is Liesel's trauma mitigated? Black book unfinished/incomplete testimony. https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256997100 2018-05-01 18:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sonyajand/311ssyz8mzz1/wish/256997100