From my Reader Response, "Cultural trauma relates to a group of people who were exposed to a situation that caused trauma, examples can be hostages, prisoners, slavery, or the conflict in the Middle East." Reading this quote we can understand that the type of trauma from The Beekeeper of Aleppo, is cultural trauma.

I include this quote from my Reader Response that shows the Othering concept, "we see the othering concept as the people in the streets, the intruders; she talked about them tying up housemaids and sawing through the iron bars on doors and windows....they would sit on the curbs by the houses under the trees, begging, they drank and discarded the bottles in the streets and would sleep in front of the homes' gates."

The concept of Empire can be shown in another quote from my Reader Response, "Each house on this street looks like its own empire, except they aren't ruling over anyone, there is no authority figure; the homeowners are trying to keep he people in the street out." From reading this story, you get the visual of this street looking like a prison, but the idea of it being a prison is reversed because instead of trying to keep people in, they're trying to keep people out. Similar to Waiting for the Barbarians, it is a prison they are in, but they are also scared of the barbarians, so they're also trying to keep them out as well as keep prisoners in.