Stitches and The Psyche

My original paper about Stitches: A Memoir was about the relationships between David, the main character, and his family. My research paper is going to be focused more on the psychological impact of the types of relationships the family had with each other.  What I’m hoping to get out of this paper is that there is a psychological reason behind the relationship of David and his mother. Hopefully answering questions like why she was so distant towards David and why she hated him. And to see if maybe the pattern of abuse from his mother comes from her past with her mother and her family or if it could have come from something else. Hopefully the more I research the more I can find about where these tendencies come from and if they can be traced back to a past relationship.

 My research is mainly coming from sources from the library database esources including the Gale database and other sites. One of the sources that I have found talks about how domestic violence can affect a young child’s emotional state. It also talks about how domestic violence comes shows on the child in many things like drawings. The children’s drawings would show either their parents abusing them or how it made them feel. 

Another source that I have found starts off with some theories behind domestic violence and the impact it has on the children.  It also talks about the different types of feeling that the children have that are going through domestic violence including anxiety, fear and dread. And also explaining the fear that the children have that they might not ever escape the violence in the home and how that fear can affect the relationships the children have later on in their lives.

So the research paper is going to mainly be about the relationship between David and his mother. Whether or not that relationship had a major effect on the rest of his life.