Troma

By Pablo Mora
 Thesis
Morrison and O’brien reveal the
paradoxical nature of a repressed
memory and troma:
it expresses itself through our
suppression.
Killing buffalo=expresing troma
● Character foil shows it.
● RAt cries and the Buffalo feels pain.
● Reveals what rat is feeling on the inside.
● (buffalo feels pain, and rat cries out with the pain)
● Black eyes show lifelessness (like a canvas)
 This is My Quote:
“Right now it was a question of pain. He shot
off the tail” (75 Morrison, citeItForYou.com)
Sethe Killing Baby
Expresses Trauma

“White People believed that whatever the

manners, under every dark skin was a jungle.
Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming
baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for
their sweet white blood. In a way, he thought,
they were right… It was the jungle whitefolks
planted in them. And it grew… hidden, silent,
except once in a while when you could hear its
mumbling in places like 124”(145).
 This is My Quote:
““Right now it was a question of pain. He shot
off the tail” ” (75 Morrison, citeItForYou.com)
Killing buffalo=expresing troma
● Character foil shows it.
● RAt cries and the Buffalo feels pain.
● Reveals what rat is feeling on the inside.
● (buffalo feels pain, and rat cries out with the pain)
● Black eyes show lifelessness (like a canvas)
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“Every human is an artist,
and every task, even peeling an onion,
is an art piece,
with each slice expressing an ocean of emotions”.
-Somebody Famous
 “Every outward expression is informed by what is
within.”
-Somebody less famous (me)
ARt!
Troma

By Pablo Mora
 Thesis
Morrison and O’brien reveal the
paradoxical nature of a repressed
memory and trauma:
it expresses itself through our
suppression.
Everything!
Killing buffalo=expresing troma
● Character foil shows it.
● RAt cries and the Buffalo feels pain.
● Reveals what rat is feeling on the inside.
● (buffalo feels pain, and rat cries out with the pain)
● Black eyes show lifelessness (like a canvas for his emotions)
● “Right now it was a question of pain. He shot off the tail” (75)
Sethe Killing Baby
Expresses Trauma

“She ain't crazy. She love those children.

She was trying to outhurt the hurter” (187).

“White People believed that whatever the

manners, under every dark skin was a jungle.
Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming
baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for
their sweet white blood. In a way, he thought,
they were right… It was the jungle whitefolks
planted in them. And it grew… hidden, silent,
except once in a while when you could hear its
mumbling in places like 124”(145).
What she go and do that for?What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
What she go and do that for? What she go and do that for?
 “This one [war story]
she liked” (O’brien 80).

“The poor baby buffalo”

(80).
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say, is put it all behind
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“The guys sometimes liked to kid her Wakanda Forever
about it… but Mary Anne would just smile
and stick out her tongue. “I’m here,” she’d
say, “I might as well learn something”
(O'brien 91).

“In the darkness there was that flipped-out

tribal music, which seemed to come from the
earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a
woman’s voice rising up in a language
beyond translation” (Morrison 107).
It was the jungle whitefolks planted in them. And it
grew… hidden, silent, except once in a while when you
could hear its mumbling in places like 124”(145).
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Ultimate
Meta-ness:
(wow)
Works Cited Page
Obrien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Fourth Estate, 2015.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage, 2016.