Psychological Trauma in KartikayaGimire's "God Knows Where He went" and "Sister's Love"

Abstract

KartikayaGhimire's stories "God Knows Where He Went" and "Sister's Love" are theportraits of shattering events interconnected with the characters in the stories Upheavels in family, sistersdeparture, loss of life give more pain and suffering in the lives of character which leads them towards psychosis. Badly wounded characters' psychology infects rest of their life. Protagonist 'I' undergoes a great thunderbolt on his life which degeneratespsychosis on him. Throughout his life he longs for his dead friend's arrival. A sixth grader Dhaniya tries to comfort herself by writing poems with the themes of war,suffocation, bloodshed, enmity. She intends to transform her grief into power by writingand telling the verses to her friends and exposing her inner frustration through verses in various competitions. She is living her life that her kidnapped father would return one day. Similarly, another character Salil is isolated due to her sister's marriage. The nostalgia of the time he passed with her sister leads him towards trauma. He starts passing his sleepless nights. Salil's expectation without his sister comes to be false. He could not get amusement without his sister and intends to visit her house and beg sorry for his misdeeds.In this way characters in this anthology try to cope up with their lives.They areable to distinguish between past and present.In other words, in post-traumatic working through one critically engages trauma by creating acertain distance between the past and the present and is not totally lost in the past. Itrather faces the present and engages the past trauma for the betterment in the future as in stories Salil and Dhaniya adopt living strategy remembering the past events for their better future endeavors.