Introspection Of A Child’s Psychology: A Study On Lurlene Mcdaniel’s Six Months To Live

Abstract

Life has happy as well as unhappy situations.  Unhappiness arises out of Disease, Death of closed one, Rape, War, and so on.  The above mentioned factors produce trauma in the mind of a person.  The present research emphasizes on the Trauma of an Ill-person.  Trauma can be identified as Anxiety.  Sigmund Freud explicates his theory on Anxiety and Defense Mechanisms to wipe out Anxiety from the minds of people.  The research chooses Lurlene McDaniel’s Six Months to Live.  Dawn Rochelle is the protagonist of the novel, who is affected by Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Cancer.  She undergoes psychological pain when she is diagnosed with cancer.  The present study focuses on the number of psychological anxiety of the character and how she overcomes it by using the defense mechanisms.