Epigenetic Inheritance Of Traumatic Events
In the excerpt “Hiroshima and The Inheritance of Trauma” the author, Sarah Stillman, discusses the psychological effects of traumatizing events and how it can spread like a contagious disease. Stillman references the traumatic bombing of Hiroshima and how the detrimental trauma has affected the mother, Shoji, and the next generation, her daughter Minori. The relationship between Shoji’s experience of the bombing being translating to Minori is a valid statement because I myself can relate to families tragedies. I come from a Jewish background from my Mom’s side where my great grandfather was alive during world war II and witnessed the massacre event of the Holocaust. When I was younger he would share …show more content…
In my Jewish community, everyone is aware of what massacre has occurred and how detrimental it was to the Jewish religion to try to kill an entire religion based on no moral intel. The thought of the trauma seems to arise itself in the new generations as they grow older and comprehend the magnitude of what happened. So, as generations, past they seem to all develop the same traumatic effects of the holocaust such as their family members because we as an entire community were affected because we lost people in our family to crucial and unhumanized methods. However, we have found a way to cope with the traumatic offense by supporting one another and stick together so that another catastrophic event will be more difficult to take place. there are many Jewish temples around my community that we all know about and confide in one another when we are there. Furthermore, I came to realize that I am not the only one who inherited trauma from the holocausts devastating event because other members of the Jewish society have been going through the same hardships as i. Relating this to Stillman 's excerpt, the family that was bombed at Hiroshima talks about sticking with one another to support each other through their rough nightmares especially the mothers like my Jewish `community supports me. Therefore, my argument that trauma can be spread is supported bases off of the entirety of my Jewish community feeling the traumatic stress and situation others once felt during the
In the excerpt “Hiroshima and The Inheritance of Trauma” the author, Sarah Stillman, discusses the psychological effects of traumatizing events and how it can spread like a contagious disease. Stillman references the traumatic bombing of Hiroshima and how the detrimental trauma has affected the mother, Shoji, and the next generation, her daughter Minori. The relationship between Shoji’s experience of the bombing being translating to Minori is a valid statement because I myself can relate to families tragedies. I come from a Jewish background from my Mom’s side where my great grandfather was alive during world war II and witnessed the massacre event of the Holocaust. When I was younger he would share …show more content…
In my Jewish community, everyone is aware of what massacre has occurred and how detrimental it was to the Jewish religion to try to kill an entire religion based on no moral intel. The thought of the trauma seems to arise itself in the new generations as they grow older and comprehend the magnitude of what happened. So, as generations, past they seem to all develop the same traumatic effects of the holocaust such as their family members because we as an entire community were affected because we lost people in our family to crucial and unhumanized methods. However, we have found a way to cope with the traumatic offense by supporting one another and stick together so that another catastrophic event will be more difficult to take place. there are many Jewish temples around my community that we all know about and confide in one another when we are there. Furthermore, I came to realize that I am not the only one who inherited trauma from the holocausts devastating event because other members of the Jewish society have been going through the same hardships as i. Relating this to Stillman 's excerpt, the family that was bombed at Hiroshima talks about sticking with one another to support each other through their rough nightmares especially the mothers like my Jewish `community supports me. Therefore, my argument that trauma can be spread is supported bases off of the entirety of my Jewish community feeling the traumatic stress and situation others once felt during the