The Analysis of Lily Bloom’s Trauma in Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us

No. Klas	:	00000089/SKR
Pengarang	:	Lidya Gloria Sarungu
Penerbit	:	FAKULTAS ILMU BUDAYA, SURABAYA, 2023
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Synopsis	:	This analysis presents the emotional Feeling found in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us especially the main character Lily Bloom. The findings show that Lily Bloom’s way of coping with her trauma is learned from her experience during her teenage years and adult life. In this analysis, the writer will focus on Lily Bloom’s trauma as well in analysis causes and effects of the trauma and her specific coping-mechanism. The writer uses a psychological approach to analyze the main character's trauma using the theory of Cathy Caruth, Judith Herman and James Pennebaker. The analysis shows that Lily‟s trauma reflected in the novel is when she finds comfort in shuffling cards and she also has hallucinations. The causes of trauma is the abusive cycle that her father did to her mother when she is a teenager. Lily Bloom's experiences with traumatic events have negative and positive affects. The negative effects include difficulties in relationships, self-conflict, and being affected by feelings. The positive effects is that she has finally realized by looking at her life possibilities which she wants to explore things to make better. She uses expressive writing as her specific coping-mechanism to learn about her trauma.