When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday Analysis
The Connection Between Dissociation and the Environment
Whether it is noticeable or not, everyone tends to drift off harmlessly into their own little worlds sometimes but for some select few it is more drastic than that. Dissociation is a mental disorder where the brain tries to protect an individual from traumatic events by detaching themselves from their surroundings both physically and emotionally. In Martha Stout’s essay, When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday, she writes about dissociation and how it effects a person’s everyday life. Stout informs the reader on how dissociation begins with a traumatic experience in one’s environment that alters the way the brain programs itself, which is to protect the individual from any reminder of such experience. Similarly, in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall …show more content…
He describes an instance where one would strive in a bad environment. He writes about the New York subway system in the 1980’s and how chaotic everything was there. Some people had the mentality that if something isn’t getting better then ignore it or join whatever caused things to get that way hoping that it could make their lives a little bit easier. Aiming to break the chaos that was the New York subway system, William Bratton worked hard to find a way to clean things up. Bratton wanted to make the subway system better for the innocent passengers so that they could feel safe while riding the subway. He would take time off his nights to “roam the city on the subway” (Gladwell 154) and experience how bad things were first hand. Bratton took the risk of being in such a bad environment in the name of making things better for others. Ever since Bratton changed the way the subway systems work in New York helps numerous amounts of people survive the subways and to feel safe in their
Whether it is noticeable or not, everyone tends to drift off harmlessly into their own little worlds sometimes but for some select few it is more drastic than that. Dissociation is a mental disorder where the brain tries to protect an individual from traumatic events by detaching themselves from their surroundings both physically and emotionally. In Martha Stout’s essay, When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday, she writes about dissociation and how it effects a person’s everyday life. Stout informs the reader on how dissociation begins with a traumatic experience in one’s environment that alters the way the brain programs itself, which is to protect the individual from any reminder of such experience. Similarly, in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall …show more content…
He describes an instance where one would strive in a bad environment. He writes about the New York subway system in the 1980’s and how chaotic everything was there. Some people had the mentality that if something isn’t getting better then ignore it or join whatever caused things to get that way hoping that it could make their lives a little bit easier. Aiming to break the chaos that was the New York subway system, William Bratton worked hard to find a way to clean things up. Bratton wanted to make the subway system better for the innocent passengers so that they could feel safe while riding the subway. He would take time off his nights to “roam the city on the subway” (Gladwell 154) and experience how bad things were first hand. Bratton took the risk of being in such a bad environment in the name of making things better for others. Ever since Bratton changed the way the subway systems work in New York helps numerous amounts of people survive the subways and to feel safe in their