Cordelia, an active duty marine, served in afghanistan. while she was on patrol with her friend, an ied went off, killing her friend and injuring her. in the two months since her friend died, cordelia has been jumpy, irritable, avoids talking about her friend, and once every few days experiences a flashback to the explosion. cordelia is experiencing (a) disorder.

Cordelia is likely to be experiencing the posttraumatic stress disorder. This is considered to be a mental health condition in which an individual experience this when he or she has encountered a traumatic event. This would likely make an individual have flashbacks of the event, nightmares or to even experience anxiety.

because he was a christian?

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.