'the Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down' And 'the Great Mortality' - How People React To Catastrophe

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...degree depending upon the cultural and social implications. The extent to which the aspects of public and private tragedy serve to further deepen the divide is both grand and far-reaching; that each form of catastrophe brings about responses of anger, perceived betrayal and outright erroneousness speaks to human nature's prerequisite to find answers to questions that do not always exist. This realization is duly illustrated in Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Kelly's The Great Mortality whereby each other depicts the aftermath of tragedy that marks a watershed moment in the lives of those who endure the catastrophe.
Reactions to critical incidents such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries, hostage and/or threatening situations require the human being to respond in a way that intensifies the inherent manifestations of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance; however, the examples brought forth by Fadiman (1998) and Kelly (2006) do not follow these...

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