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THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING MENTAL HEALTH IN FACING COVID-19
Siska Alfaningrum

Last modified: 2021-11-24

Abstract


This study intends to explore the influence of psychological problems resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic on someone’s life through graphic memoirs. It is shown by literature students that respond to Covid-19 and make the literary work as their critics and reflections. The mental health problem is conveyed explicitly in this study and it has been portrayed through plot, setting, and characters in the author’s work. By using the writing techniques from Judith Barrington (1997) on Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, the researcher attempts to make a copyrighted graphic memoir with the title of A Light on My Horrible Night. This graphic memoir reflects on the mental distress that the author felt and experienced during the pandemic. It describes the situation that causes social issues to mental health problems. Through the literary work, the author wants to show that writing can treat mental illness in a simple way known as Writing Therapy. In the graphic memoir, the author also alludes to people who are unable to respond to Covid-19 properly which means they have to experience mental illness in daily life.

 


Keywords


Covid-19, graphic memoir, human fear, mental health, writing therapy

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