Post Traumatic Stress and the Brothers Relationship in The Red Convert

heat content Fosdick once said, The calamity of struggle is that it uses mans best to do mans worst. In The Red Convertible by Louis Erdrich, there is a encounter amongst two brothers, hydrogen and Lyman as ones awareness towards reality is shifted upon the return of the Vietnam state of war. Henrys experience fighting in the Vietnam War is the responsibility for the unheralded aftermath that affects their brotherhood. The event of Henry fighting in the war through fears, emotions and horrors that he encounters is the source of his Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome PTSD. It has shaped his make perception of reality and his descent with his brother Lyman and the strong bond that they had shared. War transforms a person in ways that can never be imagined. Living in a war as well as fighting in one is not an experience witnessed in universal life. Seeing battalion die every time and everywhere you go can be seen as an unpleasant experience for any individualist such as Henr y. The experiences that Henry had embraced during the Vietnam War have caused him to become an enraged and paranoid being after the war. It has shaped him to become this individual of concern and with no emotions. The narrator saysthe change was no good. You could hardly expect him to change for the better, I know. But he was quiet, so quiet, and never comfortable posing still anywhere but always up and moving some (Erdrich 28). It appears that the war in Vietnam has still gotten into Henry. The war may be oer in reality but in his mind it is still passing on. This can explain all the agitations and discomfort he has such as not being able to sit still. Based on research, what Henry was experiencing was shellshock from the battlefield from the many soldiers being killed to t... ...s inner self. What is seen as a relationship amongst these two young men is now torn apart by the transformation of Henry caused from his witnesses during warfare.The reality that shapes individuals as they fight in war can lead to the resentment they have with the world and the tragedies that they had experienced in the past. Veterans are often times overwhelmed with their fears and sensations of their past that comm scarcely disables them to transgress and blistering beyond the emotions and apprehensions they witness in posttraumatic experiences. This is also seen in everyday lives of people as they too experience traumatic events such as kinfolk 11th and the fall of the World Trade Center or only when by regrets of decisions that is made. Ones fears, emotions and disturbances that are embraced through the past are the only result of the unconscious reality of ones future.