No Man Is An Island;Every Book Is A World

Gabrielle Zevin is a young American writer and senior film screenwriter.Her internationally phenomenal bestseller The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry has a little bit of humor,romance,mystery,which tells a hilarious,witty,gripping and moving story happening on a remote and desolate island.People living on the Alice Island have gone through different tragic stories and also suffered pain,despair,and bewilderment after being traumatized,but they did not live up to their lives.On the contrary,they came together with their own pains,trying to help and redeem each other.It is precisely because love and books help them regain their confidence in life that thereby they make great efforts to pass the extremely difficult moments in life,repair their wounds and learn to cherish everything they have.Respectively starting from two levels of individual trauma and collective trauma,this thesis attempts to combine trauma theory to interpret this novel by combing through the traumatic experiences of several major characters and the different trauma symptoms presented,and to further explore their strategies to cope with trauma and focus on the process of how they successfully get out of trauma and obtain salvation.With books as the medium and love as the link,the family affection,friendship,love as well as reading expressed in the novel are panaceas to cure all traumas.Therefore,the traumatic reading of this novel may give us some enlightenment—No one is an alone island,and every island has the possibility of recovery.