Khairunnisa Fitri Jasmine Yuma. Child’s Trauma and Identity during the Holocaust in The Book of Aron Novel by Jim Shepard. A Thesis: English Literature Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, 2021.
This research aims to show how Aron Różycki as the main character receives his trauma during the Holocaust in Warsaw Ghetto which later forms his identity in Jim Shepard’s novel The Book of Aron published in 2015 by Knopf Publishing Group with the use of Cathy Caruth’s approach in Trauma Theory in literature. This research uses the qualitative method and descriptive analysis technique in analysing the data. The data is collected from the words, sentences, and paragraphs in the novel which indicates the symptoms of trauma. The findings of this research show that Aron’s trauma came from his experiences of witnessing the deaths of his friend, Lutek and his Mother. His trauma, in the form of flashbacks, caused him to develop the anxiety disorder and insomnia which caused the inability for him to be separated from Dr. Korczak. His previous identity shattered because of the trauma which makes him valued himself based on the traumatic experiences that he had, blaming himself upon the trauma that he had and to be born as a Jew during the World War II.

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