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Two American novels illustrate post-traumatic stress well: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, dealing with life on the Native American reservation post-Vietnam and Beloved by Toni Morrison, dealing with Civil War era slavery. Characters in these stories feel emotion, mental, and physical stress and it affects their behavior in a manner consistent with symptoms of grief[8], depression[5], and post-traumatic stress syndrome [7]. Characters suffer on all levels--their race attacked, their bodies abused, their beliefs challenged, their personal relations and families destroyed, and their minds reel with the horror of what they experience. By the end of both novels, characters have survived and in doing so, overcome some of their problems.
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