P.T.S.D Shell Shock

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is what the whole book from Xavier's point of view is being told through. He tells of the wars events as he remembers them in flashbacks; caused by shell shock. The book depicts P.T.S.D well because most moments shown of the war happen while Xavier is in pain which causes him to remember the worst of the war. In the book Three Day Road the author portrayed P.T.S.D well because he showed the effects and how soldiers dealt with them. Some of the effects were: unable to sleep, always anxious, not able to eat, flashbacks, and real life nightmares. The soldier dealt with these by using drugs and alcohol to cope with Shell Shock by calming themselves down. Page 288 Xavier says ""This way",I say,pulling Elijah's sleeve and motioning with my other hand at the Corporal. We slip into an alley as the plane passes over, low and fast. A bomb falling from under the plane screams in the cold air, then we hear the whomp of splintering roof as it pierces wood and the tiny breath of silence before the explosion." This just goes to show the reason why P.T.S.D hits so many soldiers. It is because the threat was constant, and it mentally messed people up, to the point where the war affected them until the end of their life.