Recovering from trauma cannot take place when one is isolated from the rest of the people. The process of recovery has to be involving and deliberate. Failure to this, the victim remains haunted by the pain of the past. The recovery begins to take place when the trauma is spoken out. In the Funeral singer, Freda, while speaking about her friends who were suffering says that she thought “exposing a few details of my life would inspire them to do the same and slowly we’d parcel out our sorrows, each walking out with fewer than we’d carried in” .
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The characters have been used to show the trauma, suffering, death and recovery. Each of the women had trauma in their lives. Trauma produces a break down in the life of the affected individual. However, it is possible to overcome the trauma. The stages given for overcoming trauma can be effective in real life situations. Though these stages show the process of mourning loss, they may also show the stages of recovery and healing. This can be achieved by speaking the problem out. This sharing reduces pain.
Speaking out involves letting out breath. This is symbolic to show letting go of the trauma. Holding on to pain prolongs the suffering. Another impact of sharing is that it shrinks the problem. Empathizing with each other in the sharing of the problem is effective I binding relationships. It is followed by taking action against the problem. This is the process of making physical effort to eliminate the reminders and source of the trauma. Finally, the healing process ends by forgetting the problem and moving on with life.
Works Cited
Dancticat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.
