Date of Award
5-2022
Degree Type
Creative Project
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
English
Committee Chair(s)
Michael Sowder
Committee
Michael Sowder
Committee
Adena Rivera-Dundas
Committee
Benjamin Gunsberg
Abstract
This thesis is the start of what I envision to be a full-length memoir. I address multiple themes, specifically family and generational trauma and mental illness. I explore these themes non-linearly, through personal narrative, scientific research, and scene recreations. I begin with an introduction and then move into an essay that explores my experience meeting my estranged sister from the first time. Throughout the essay, I move in and out of this meeting, weaving the encounter together with my own struggles with mental health, research about the Peppered moth species, and scene recreations from the lives of other women in my family. Through each of these subjects, the deeper theme of generational trauma is explored.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Kylie, "The Moth Effect" (2022). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 1647.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1647
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