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Post by sujeonggg on Apr 8, 2013 5:57:58 GMT -5
I think it's just normal thing for me to have a trauma if I just escaped from the camp. Because I was born and raised in the camp for the whole life, I would have no memories other than those horrible things like work, torture, famine,etc. So even after I became free, those memories would there like Shin from the book, and I might can't stop throw them off. Like Shin did after he escaped, I think I might seriously suffer from paranoid.
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Post by davidh on Apr 10, 2013 12:49:36 GMT -5
It's pretty obvious that I would live with that trauma because it was one of the hard and toughest moment that I would have ever experience and even if I was thought to follow that norms of society, I still think that lives of camp 14 was disaster.
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Post by stormy44 on Apr 11, 2013 0:04:23 GMT -5
I read this a long time ago, but a North Korean who escaped to South Korea could not live a normal life at all. He was so shocked to see people leaving their food or throwing usable objects that he couldn't stop crying for days. Obviously the two nations are so different from each other, and if I ran away from the camp, I wouldn't feel comfortable at all. And because Shin was born in the camp, he would have a hard time socializing with others and feeling the same emotions as others.
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Post by sageda on Apr 11, 2013 0:10:16 GMT -5
I think anyone who escapes a concentration camp would have some form of PTSD. I mean, even Korean guys who serve in the military and come back to normal society have trouble adjusting so I can only imagine how difficult it must be for concentration camp survivors. I think I would just be in a constant state of fear or maybe even blissful. I think it all depends on your mindset.
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