Authors:
- Zainab Salahaddin Hussein, بەشی فەلسەفە و توێژینەوە کلتورییەکان (Deptartment of Philosophy and Cultural Studies), البدازانکۆی زانکۆی سلێمانی (University of Sulaimani) - Personal Website, Google Scholar, ResearchGate

- Hamdi Hameed Yousif: Academia.edu, Google Scholar

Abstract: »This paper, “Susie’s double traumas: A psychological study of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold,” focuses on recurrent universal issues, which are rape and rape trauma. American writer Alice Sebold, who suffered such trauma, wrote The Lovely Bones in 2002 to address this dilemma. Susie, the novel's fourteen-year-old protagonist, lived happily with her family before the tragic day when Mr. Harvey violated her and murdered her to escape legal consequences. The study concludes, through a qualitative deductive psychological approach, specifically Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, that Susie suffered from two double traumas: rape trauma and murder trauma. Fortunately, she copes with both traumas separately and successfully, aided by the love of her family and the support of her companions in heaven. This highlights the importance of emotional support for rape victims during the healing journey.« (Source: Journal of the College of Languages)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 88)
	Introduction (p. 89)
	2. “Drop of Pain”: Susie’s Five Stages of Grief (p. 93)
	2.1 “Please Don’t”: Susie’s Rape Trauma (p. 94)
	2.2 “Wide Wide Heaven”: Susie’s Murder Trauma (p. 98)
	Conclusion (p. 105)
	References (p. 106)

Wikipedia: History of the Americas: History of the United States | Literature: American literature / Alice Sebold | Literature: Fiction about rape / The Lovely Bones | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in the United States