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Item Page to Screen: A Comparative Study of Patricia McCormick’s Sold and its Adaptation in Film(Central Department of English, 2018) Bartaula, SamikshyaThis research work examines interrelationship between Particia McCormick‘s Sold and its cinematic adaptation. While a novel is a written work of art designed for reading, a film is a visual and aural art to watch. However, they share a number of elements like character, narrative, setting, plot, and so forth: this research work investigates why stories are broughtfrom page to screen. It examines how it preserves the peculiar properties of novel and how it is possible to convert a long novel into a short film. The novel Sold and its adaptation stand as unique works of art despite their common narrative structures. The issue of novel is girls trafficking where its cinematic adaptation also carries the same issue that is why main spirit of novel has not been distorted in the film but to make commercial, the director modified some characters, scenes, events etc. Finally, this research shows value of film adaptation, which is easy medium to deliver knowledge in society. Keywords:Adaptation, Motion picture, Art, Faithfulness, Girls traffickingItem Working through of Trauma in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory(Department of English, 2018) Pandey, AmbikaThis researchentitled“WorkingThroughof traumainEdwidge Danticat’s novel Breath, Eyes,Memory”is thestory of a young Haitian-American woman Sophie Caco, who tries to reconstruct her identity and to find a way to recover from her past experiences.The maincharacters in the novel suffer from a diverserange of different traumas, which together construct the trauma of black Haitian people, which may, therefore, be understood as a collective accumulation of the traumas, their sources and effects. In the novel the charactersare being held prisoners by their own memories of the traumatic conflicts they have endured, and they seem to be unable to let go of these traumatic memories. Theories of trauma areapplied in order to study the effects and sources of thetraumas of the main characters. Trauma isindigestible everywhere. Characters are surviving their life by verbalizing or narativization. In the novel characters narativize to negotiate their trauma.