PTSD In Nusrat's Under The Persimmon Tree

(AGG) people all around the world, young or old have and had suffered from PTSD, just the like main characters in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree.(BS-1) Nusrat went through the dark stages of her life when her sister Margaret died. (BS-2) Margaret’s death made Nusrat change who she was in order to give herself the internal peace she was looking for. (BS-3) Najmah was severely affected with PTSD when she saw her mother and baby brother get bombed, this made Najmah develop new traits in order to survive.(TS) The author used a real life topic, PTSD, to force the characters to form new traits throughout the novel.

(MIP-1) The author made Nusrat show sure signs of PTSD starting at a young age, when she lost her sister Margaret. (SIP-A) When