A Balancing Act: Personalizing vs. Contextualizing Trauma
After returning from a great winter break my ASTU class read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by John Safran Foer, which deals with both the personal loss of a parent after the 9/11 attacks and other sources of trauma felt by those the main character Oskar encounters. After Osakar, a creative and curious nine year old, loses his father in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 he sets out to find a lock that matches a key he finds in his father’s closet. Of course this quest has a far more…read more