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Analyzing Roger Dean Kiser's short story Butterflies
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....helplessness." Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
....channels which altogether have been viewed over a billion times with similar content and the plot is very much alike. It seems oddly specific, especially for children's content. It's basically the same kind of thing each time. The same premise, same lesson. Over and over again. While the plot itself may seem pretty simple, what one may wonder is, why is having the baby cry each time necessary? What purpose does this serve? "Well, the answer is not immediately obvious but one possibility is to cause a condition known as learned....
This video focuses on a video that features a picture of a baby and a set of objects. A song called "Finger Family" is played throughout and each time after it references a certain color, the object with that color is taken away by an evil minion and the baby cries. The commentator notes the existence of hundreds of videos spanning dozens of....
An inquirer may say "Describe the trauma" and "What would the effects be?" Witnessing a person injuring butterflies on purpose would likely be shocking and confusing. Could it actually cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Context is important. Roger Dean Kiser was a child at the time. How could this affect him?
Witnessing such an
event can be distressing to many people. It could be especially traumatizing for seven and eight year old children. Young minds are fragile, and exposure to activity of this nature could open the gates to problems for one of youthfulness.
Kiser describes how he felt about the abuse. "How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close."
Recap: Roger Dean Kiser says that at a time in his life when beauty meant something special to him. He estimates that he would've been about six or seven years old. But several weeks or maybe a month later he had an experience in which, as he put it, the orphanage turned him into an "old man."