Section 21
- I can feel him slipping down—it’s like this…vortex, this hole. And I try to grab him, like, ‘No! Don’t go down there!’ He can still get really depressed.
- I can feel him slipping down: Charlen knows when Steve is about to enter one of his flashbacks and depressed stages.
- Vortex: Charlen is talking about Steve and how she knows when he is falling into mass of whirling fluid
- ‘Don’t go down there’: Charlen tries to pull him out of the depressed state he is going to enter.
- Depressed: Steve enters a state where he feels helpless. Categorical.
- Charlene has long, graying dark hair parted down the middle and super-serious eyes, which she has to lower to compose herself for a minute when I ask her, alone, if she saved Steve’s life. “He loves me a lot,” she answers. “I’ve never known love like this. He is…awesome.”
- Super-serious eyes: She is probably very concerned with Steve and everything he does.
- if she saved Steve’s life: Charlen saved steven from depression because of his PTSD?
- “He loves me a lot,”: She he loves her alot because she saved his life and helped him throughout the years of their marriage
- I’ve never known love like this: He loves her more than she’ll ever feel because she saved him.
- “She saved my life,” Steve says of Charlene, without my asking.
- -Casual claim because of his PTSD his wife saved his life
- -Steve suffers from PTSD
- – He would’ve fell into depression without his wife.
- – He didn’t ask she willing put up with it
- VA rated Steve at 100 percent PTSD disabled, but he’s found his way to his version of a joyful life
- 100 percent PTSD disabled: Definition claim saying Steve is 100% PTSD disabled
- Found his way: Steve has found another way to do life
- joyful life: Steve lives life another way so he enjoys it
- In the Vines’ household in Alabama, at any unpredictable time of night, the nightmare starts in Iraq.
- -Nightmares: Categorical claim
- – The nightmares Steven has because of his PTSD
- – any unpredictable time of night: PTSD occurs randomly
- Someone’s yelling for the medic and an indiscernible string of noises seeps out of Caleb’s mouth while he’s dying.
- Categorical claim: flashbacks are a part of PTSD
- Indiscernible string of noises: the noise someone makes when they’re in pain
- He’s dying: PTSD is bringing flashbacks of his friends dying.
- she wakes up, shaky, the next morning. “Still don’t get how I can so vividly dream of somewhere I’ve never actually been.”
- Brennan caught PTSD
- Brennan has never went to war so we assume PTSD is contagious
- She wakes up shaky: because she had such a vivid dream about Iraq
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