An Object's Memory

similes the memory of the sled that The Giver gave Jonas. The author compares the memory of

Memory as a theme is used by many authors to elicit feelings of nostalgia and longing for the past, which can have a heavy influence on their actions in the present. In Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel uses memory as a framework for her novel, as flashbacks to before the collapse are memories in the present time. Jumping back and forth from 15 years before and after the collapse, Mandel creates an idea that the past is very well embedded in the present. The memories of Arthur, a central character that links Kirsten, Clark, and the Prophet together, affect their futures, and the relationships between them. In The Odyssey of Homer, Homer uses memory to convey the idea

Many people also by reading, author’s memories are able to relate to what they experienced in a similar fashion. In addition, writer often feel a sense of

During the last few decades memory researchers have shown interest in both explicit and implicit memory, drawn comparisons between them and explored techniques to measure them in a variety of settings including advertising and communication effectiveness (Goode, 2007; Samu & Krishnan, 2010; Yoo, 2007). Explicit memory refers to conscious and intentional recollection or retrieval of previously stored information or experiences, and is assessed by traditional tests of recognition and recall. In contrast, implicit memory refers to changes in task performance or observed behavior produced by priming effects of prior experiences without the conscious or intentional retrieval of those experiences (Graf & Masson, 2013). Memory researchers have empirically investigated this unconscious nature of implicit memory by exploring dissociations between explicit and implicit memory (Gopie, Craik, & Hasher, 2011; Mulligan, 2012) in a sense that certain variables like level of processing and divided attention at stimuli exposure impact explicit memory but leave implicit memory unaffected (Bechtel, 2008; Spataro et al., 2013).

In my opinion, I think that the author is successful in creating an interesting piece about memory due to how well he was able to organize his content. For example, the author starts by explaining his own childhood memory at the lake that took place many years ago; then, as the story progress, he is tentative to point out to the readers what has changed in the lake over the years; what

Three poems written by Harwood that emphasise the idea of memory’s importance and its ability to alter and determine perceptions are ‘Father and Child’, ‘The Violets’ and ‘At Mornington’. Each of these poems reminisces on pivotal experiences that modify one’s assessment

Moreover, writing about memory which is the groundwork of the traditional autobiographical genre is a problematic endeavor, since it is a project of conflating memory, imagination, and sometimes a conscious misrepresentation of the past. Likewise, it is a way to inscribe the discursive selves that they envision as “true” representations of their selfhoods.

As the poem progresses, the misplaced or forgotten items become concepts such as names and ideas, and therefore carry more of an impact. For example, forgetting someone’s name, however not uncommon, can be associated with feelings of embarrassment from the forgettor, and annoyance from the forgotten when they discover that they were not important enough to be remembered. The speaker simply shrugs off these losses because “None of [them] will bring disaster,” as mentioned in line 9. Emotion, often associated with memories is introduced in line 10 when the speaker announces, “I lost my mother’s watch.” An item such as a mother’s watch holds sentimental value, unlike the previously mentioned keys; however, the speaker repeats, “I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster,” (line 15) indicating that the watch was merely a material possession crowded with memories. At this point, the reader recognizes the feeling of missing something associated with greater losses of objects and ideas the speaker regards with more emotional attachment.

F. Scott Fitzgerald understands that memory is a double-edged sword, and he illustrates this thought in two of his short stories, Babylon Revisited and Winter Dreams. In his story Babylon Revisited, the protagonist, Charles Wales, is tormented by memories of his past. His wife is dead, and his old friends won’t stop interfering in his life. His sister-in-law is basing her current ideas of him on the fact that he was an irresponsible person in the past, and it hurts his life greatly. Winter Dreams takes a slightly different approach. In this tale, the memories of the protagonist, Dexter Green, start off as pleasant but are later warped by new information. With these two works, Fitzgerald describes the problems that memories can cause in

In order to understand the objectives of each writer, it is important to be aware of the rhetorical context. To start off, “The Reach of Imagination” by J. Bronowski is a speech which was delivered at the Blashfield Address to the American Academy of Art in 1966. The speech was given to an audience of top class artists and poets to argue that all humans are capable of imagination and memory. David Schachter dives deeper into the topic of memory in an excerpt from, “Building Memories: Encoding and Retrieving the Present and Past.” Schacter uses a variety of digestible anecdotes to draw in his audience of the common man. The theory that memories are

This article explains the importance of getting the perfect amount of sleep at night. The idea that sleeping for less than five hours or more than nine hours proves to have a negative effect on the human body. Sleep deprivation has a closely related link to memory retention and can cause a person to have trouble with daily task. The author continues to explain that not only is the brain effected by too little or too much sleep, but the rest of the body is also effected. Conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and even depression have links to not getting the perfect amount of sleep. The article concludes with listing tips to get the ideal amount of sleep at night, such as, going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day and limiting the amount of caffeine that is consumed throughout the day.

This same quality would be seen if a reader could enter the mind of the narrator in “The Raven” because he has been emotionally stripped bare by his inextinguishable grief. In The Persistence of Memory the arid desert is essentially empty, save for the melting clocks, which closely parallels “The Raven” because the clocks can represent the narrator’s extremely weakened emotional state. The feelings that have become the feeblest are those of positivity and alacrity. In the simplest terms he has been stripped away of willingness and been exposed to the strongest forms of grief and anguish. Overall, the desert setting in The Persistence of Memory can represent the mind of the narrator and how stripped of feeling it has become and the few melting clocks show the numbed and weak emotion he has

To some degree, every artist creates his or her own artistic life preserver, and in doing so resequences and conserves their own artistic DNA so that it may be transferred onto another generation. Vladimir Nabokov’s memoir Speak, Memory, is not only that preserver, but the tug boat that it holds onto, heavy and cramped with the memories and history that Nabokov retells his readers against the currents of time. Speak, Memory operates thematically, not chronologically. Nabokov returns anew to his early childhood and pulls in, as it were, the memories associated with certain themes. Then he turns, changes directions, and sets off again. One such theme that resonates throughout the novel is that of exile and deteterritorialization, both

The poem, Early Memory, by January Gill o’Neil, has a memory moment in it that reveals something about the writer of the poem. In the poem it says, “I remember picking up a fistful of sand, smooth crystals, like hourglass sand and throwing it into the eyes of a boy.” This reveals something about the author because she is writing about something that already happened. The memory in this poem is important because she saw a man inflict pain upon another person and that reminded her about what she did when she was a kid.

People are more likely to remember knowledge that is connected to their experiences better than knowledge that they connect to other things. The more that information is implicated with a person, the more likely this information will be encoded and recalled. The rate that information about a person is recalled is faster and more accurate than information that is not involved with that person. If you were to give someone a scenario, they will usually try to relate that with an incident in their life that was similar making this information more likely to be encoded (Bower & Gilligan, 1979, p. 420). If you were to tell someone, for example, how insomnia is developed and the characteristics of it the person listening can connect it to their own personal experience with insomnia. This would become a more powerful encoding method compared to someone that was not able to connect insomnia to their own life. So, if someone thought of how they were so stressed out about exams, that they were not able to sleep for more than an hour a night; this would connect their experience to the topic of insomnia making it easier to remember the information than if someone that has not experienced insomnia. The same thing goes for the type of encoding someone does and the way the information gets stored. So, for example if someone was trying to remember the word house from a list of words, if the person connects it with their own home, they would be able to remember the word better than if they