Lisa Shaw Dec 4, 2006 ENG491H

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Lisa ShawDec 4, 2006ENG491H
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• Survivor guilt is the type of remorse felt by
  people who manage to survive a tragic event
  involving much loss of life, especially the lives
  of friends and loved ones or other people
  commonly associated with the survivor.

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• Survivor guilt is the term used to describe the
  feelings of those who, fortunately, emerge from a
  disaster which mortally engulfs others. On an
  irrational level, these individuals wince at
  their privileged escape from death's clutches.

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• After someone dies and after traumatic events,
  "survivor guilt" may occur because
• (a) individuals feel guilty for surviving or
  being uninjured when others were killed or
  injured
• (b) they were unable to rescue someone or had to
  leave someone dying in the disaster or
• (c) it was not possible to overcome "the bad
  guys" (Holen, 1993 Simpson, 1993). Survivors who
  went through the event may feel guilt because of
  a notion that bad things happen to people who
  deserve them and/or because of fear that
  persuades us to blame the victim (Jenkins, 1985).
  They also may feel guilt for being unable to
  control trauma symptoms (Schiraldi, 2000).

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• Gallipoli Battle of the Nek

• Survivor guilt also has the potential to compel
  an individual to remain mired in his past, to the
  relative exclusion of his present or future.
• Total casualties between 26,000 and 28,000 men

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• I was warm and snug.  I woke up and looked around
  me.  Where was I? In hospital - a whitewashed
  room with many beds.  I did not ask any
  questions I was still and quiet.  I wished I
  would feel so warm and peaceful throughout
  eternity.
• -W.H. Lench

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• Prelude Two previous attacks by the 1st Light
  Horse Brigade at Quinn's Post and at Pope's Post
  were beaten back with 3/4 of the attacking troops
  becoming casualties
• August 7, 1915 gtgt attack scheduled to commence at
  430 p.m.
• Bombings were not time-synchronized and
  communications between generals were lost and
  slow
• The battle was doomed to fail
• Approx. 600 men were sent out that today approx.
  450 died

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• One of the lts in command on August 7
• 2nd Lt Throssell was awarded the Victoria Cross
  for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to
  duty during operations on the Kaialij Aghala
  (Hill 60) in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 29 and 30
  August 1915.
• Suffered severe wounds and was ordered out of
  action

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• Rejoined forces in Egypt and fought at the 2nd
  battle of Gaza in April of 1917
• Brother, Ric, was killed
• On the night that Ric disappeared, Hugo crawled
  across the battlefield under enemy fire,
  searching in vain for his brother among the dead
  and dying, and whistling for him with the same
  signal as they had used when boys
• Hugo returned to his regiment for the final
  offensives in Palestine and led the 10th Light
  Horse guard of honour at the fall of Jerusalem

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• After WWI ended, Hugo claimed that the
  suffering he had seen had made him a socialist,
  and was an outspoken opponent of war
• This outraged many Australians, as he was a natl
  war hero and son of a former premier
• Shot himself on November 19, 1933

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• Each member of the Lamb family experiences some
  form of survivor guilt, and this syndrome impacts
  their inter-family relationships as well as how
  they interact with others outside of their
  family, and also the ways in which they view
  themselves.

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Survivor Guilt Cloudstreet

• Quick gtgt survivor guilt because of Fishs
  accident also witnesses a boy die on the train
  tracks
• preoccupation with death (cutting out pictures of
  brutal death from papers, etc)
• hard time planning for the future
• hard time with trust and relationships (mother
  and father)

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• Oriel gtgt survivor guilt because she survived the
  fire that killed her family
• trouble with relationships (living in the tent)
• views on love, being in love, etc
• Lester gtgt survivor guilt because he was only a
  cook in the war he survived, while watching
  others die
• Again gets involved with the military
• Cant plan for the future gtgt takes risks w. Sam

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• http//www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/arti
  cle.php?artID302
• http//www.holocaust-trc.org/glbsurv.htm
• http//www.counselingstlouis.net/effects.html