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The Red Convertible - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Lyam is a dynamic character because he was a carefree and happy person, he liked to go out on road trips, at the beginning of the text, but after his brother returned from the war, he began to worry about him, he wanted to take care of him and also after his brother's committed suicide he kept those memories and he was not the same again.
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  - - - Henry is a Dynamic character, because at the beginning of the text, we can notice that Henry is a happy person, who liked to spend time with his family and brother, but as the text progresses we can realize that his way of being changes after he went to the Vietnam War, he was a different person.
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- - - - An example could be when Lyman and Henry took their picture, and Lyman though he brought his brother back to normal, the epiphany was that Lyman understood that he wasn't the one who could help his brother, because later in the story Henry commits suicide.
        
        "I don't know what it was, but his smile had changed, or maybe it was gone." (Erdrich, 1984)
  - - - An example is when Henry is watching TV and he bits his lip, making the reader understand that he is inflicting self-harm and that something worst could happen, like suicide.
        
        “I looked over, and he’d bitten through his lip. Blood was going down his chin.” (Erdrich, 1984)
  - - - In the story, we don’t know what happened in the Vietnam war to Henry that makes him change that much.
        
        “Henry was different, and I’ll say this: the change was no good.” (Erdrich, 1984)
  - - - The irony is the picture they got before going on their trip because it was a good memory, instead that picture reminded Lyman about his brother's death.
        
        “That picture. I never look at it anymore.” (Erdrich, 1984)
  - - - The story has an example of symbolism, and the symbol is the car is the idea of innocence and the bond that Henry and Lyman had as brothers, as well as their memories together.
- - - - This article talks about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans, The findings, revealed distinct patterns for how the brain and body respond to learning danger and safety depending on the severity of PTSD symptoms. These findings could help explain why symptoms of PTSD can be severe for some people but not others.
        
        According to this study PTSD is a disorder that can sometimes develop after exposure to a traumatic event. People with PTSD may experience intrusive and frightening thoughts and memories of the event, experience sleep problems etc... And this is related to Henry and this can explain why he changed after arriving from the Vietnam War, and maybe is because in the war he lived some traumatic experience so Henry can have PTSD.
  - - - This is related to Henry, with the change that the war can generate in people.
- - - - Between Wisconsin,
        Minnesota and North Dakota
      - Joliet Café
      - Red River
      - Chippewa