Book Report on the Go Between

Memories from the past are shown throughout our environment. Sometimes, recalling memories from surroundings are simple, like looking into the eyes of your father. As people proceed in their lives, they encounter moments that affect them deeply. Sometimes, a discharge of memories occur, showing a recognition of righteousness in people. In a short story called “Aero Bars” by Robert Hilles, the narrator acknowledges his father’s love through recalling the past. By reminiscing memories of remarkable values or behaviours, one is able to develop a moral conscience.

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley features the narrator, Leo Colston who has found and is rereading his childhood diary from the summer of 1900. This summer is paramount in Leo’s personal development and the shaping of his views of the world. In the summer of 1900, Leo was approaching his thirteenth birthday and staying with his friend and schoolmate Marcus Maudsley at Marcus’ family’s estate, Brandham Hall. There, Leo is forced to confront class, love, and loss of innocence throughout the course of this summer. Leo’s story is retold when he finds the diary that he kept that summer. Leo’s diary entries show his affinity for Zodiac symbols, which was inspired by the astrological symbols that are at the beginning of the diary. Leo used these symbols

The Past, an ever growing pool of time, is always biting at the heels of a person. It reminds him of what they have done wrong, done right, or when he did nothing. For most people, recalling the past leads to loose ends and blanks where memories should be. No matter how much a person may want to return to the past, it is not possible. It is lost forever. These forgotten moment lead to uncertainties and confusion in the present, and chaos in the future. Forgetting the past leads to spirals, spinning downwards as people look to what they have lost. They retrace their steps hoping to find a sliver of who they are and what may become of them. In the poem, Itinerary, Eamon Grennan shows how an individual searches through his past, but can never return to it. Through the poem and with a personal experience I will explain how individuals deal with uncertainties in their pasts.

“If the human race didn’t remember anything it would be perfectly happy" (44). Thus runs one of the early musings of Jack Burden, the protagonist of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Throughout the story, however, as Jack gradually opens his eyes to the realities of his own nature and his world, he realizes that the human race cannot forget the past and survive. Man must not only remember, but also embrace the past, because it teaches him the truth about himself and enables him to face the future.

The two texts, "Excerpt from Martin Sloane: A Novel", by Michael Redhill and "Ode to a Box of Tea" by Pablo Neruda have several things in common. These things relate to how the authors of each text talk about their memories and the objects that go along with those memories.

Memory is used as a powerful conduit into the past; childhood experiences held in the subconscious illuminate an adult’s perception. Harwood uses tense shifts throughout her poetry to emphasise and indicate the interweaving and connection the past and the present hold. By allowing this examination of the childhood memories, Harwood identifies that their significance is that of an everlasting memory that will dominate over time’s continuity and the inevitability of death.

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.

The Gulf Between was wrote by Andre Siegfried. It had a big purpose during the time it was written. The Gulf between was created to talk about the “new society” that America has created. Siegfried was a Frenchman who has been to America numerous times, and made the comment that the life in America has changed. The Gulf Between tells the reasons why American society has been changing and why they are now in a new society. The audience for this section of the book could be for European natives, American natives, history majors, or anyone who is wanting to learn about American and their new society.

There was also a quote that stated, "Philippa had what are known as High Church proclivities, and took the matter seriously." This quote shows that they take church and religion seriously. Throughout the story, religion is talked about showing that the religion theme is extremely important to the narrator. Also in the story, you see that fasting and praying is a major part of their lives. Mr. Yeates also discussed how his wife was highly honored and always brought a gift with her. Lastly, Mrs. Knox praying for her family also shows that religion was important to these people. The next theme that was present is feminism because throughout the book the woman dominated the man, instead, of the man dominating the woman. You can see this in the beginning when the narrator talks about them dating for 5 years and Philippa, finally, giving him an ultimatum. The next example is when Mr. Yates said, "chiefly, I imagine, because I was a worm before her, and thankfully permitted her to do all the talking." Next, you can see this when Mrs. Knox and Mr. Hamilton had sometime gotten into a fight, and she would not go to church with him, but drove five miles away and go to another church, and the church they went to as a family was right in their back door. During this time period it was unthinkable for a woman to stand her ground against a man, and especially her taking the stance to not only go with him to church, but to go to another church on her own. I think it is pretty ironic, and funny that even though Mr. Yeates' wife dominated him, he defended his wife when needed. Love was a major theme because the story began with the narrator talking about getting married. Marriage is a big symbol of love because normally you do not get married if you do not love the other person. I think the theme love is a great theme for this story because they show their love

Great Expectations and The Go Between Both Great Expectations and The Go Between concern young men from

There have been several people that have made history in the past and in the present. These various events have occurred in different parts of the world and are documented through writing, art, and other literary forms. In “Rituals of Memory and “Once Upon a time” both pieces of literature display community building. In this analysis, I will be comparing the differences and similarities between both passages. First off, these prompts are similar by how the community is described, and how the communities are growing.

The theme of the story concentrates on women's suffrage. Mrs. Wright apparently has been pushed over the edge with the restrictions set on her life and one day she finally snaps. This implicit theme suggest

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

Because the majority of the narrator’s present existence is based on linear experience, he discovers a conflict between human memory and time. Specifically, the narrator attempts to secure a fragment of the past from any alterations that time may make. The narrator describes that he “had a very confused memory of the festival before [he] decided to rescue it piece by piece from the memory of others” (##). The narrator is seeking to ‘rescue’ the knowledge that is being torn away from his memory and the memory of others. He acknowledges the way that the passage of time alters the meaning of an event simply by imposing the limitation of linear

The narrative structure of L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between develops out of the