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Three words: Bridge to Terabithia. Every single time I have heard someone mention this book (or the film based on it), it's been in the context of how much they were traumatised by its ending as a ...
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2019-12-12T21:42:30Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T00:42:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Three words: _Bridge to Terabithia_. Every single time I have heard someone mention this book (or the film based on it), it's been in the context of how much they were traumatised by its ending as a child. A more personal example (since I've never seen/read _Bridge to Terabithia_ myself) would be the Nicholas Fisk novel _A Rag, A Bone, and a Hank of Hair_. I don't think it was supposed to be for kids, but it was in my school's library, I read it when I was nine, and it was the first story I ever encountered where the hero doesn't win. Specifically: > He and the clone family he's spent the book trying to protect are killed in a bomb strike, and I still remember the description of him watching the flesh strip from his hands as he dies. It haunted me for _years_. But I remember the story better than any other book I read at that age, even _The Lord of the Rings_, because it left that much of an impression on me. So what's the effect on a young reader when a story has a tragic ending? **Childhood trauma.**
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2018-04-18T13:29:16Z (over 6 years ago)
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