"The Gathering" by Anne Enright - Analytical Essay

The mother and son were driving past when the car backfired which led the guards to think it was an attack.They decided to chase these attackers the guards then forced the mother and son’s car into a ditch; where they assaulted them after.

Now for a different aspect of change, in some characters nostalgia for the past cripples the ability to deal with change. This nostalgia is linked with an inability to face the present. Rachel is frustrated with Jerra and accuses him of being like an old man stuck in the past. In ‘No Memory Comes’ the boy actually becomes his memories and nothing else. In this section of my speech I will delve into a very prominent character that is there through out the novel Minimum of Two. I am speaking of Jerra, Jerra is one character who doesn’t like to be in the present. He is nostalgic and thinks about the past too much. This attitude of Jerra affects not only himself but also the strength of his relationship with family members (The Strong One). Even though in some stories Jerra tries to let go of the past and deal with the present such as in Gravity, but still he is drawn back to the past. Jerra’s modern lifestyle still doesn’t stop him from thinking and bruding over his passed away father. His nostalgia for the past can never leave him. Jerra in the story The Strong One, does not want to change his lifestyle. Jerra continuously objects to his wife’s decision of studying and moving out of the caravan park. Jerra has tried to make a living by playing in a band, but this fails. And whenever Rachel approaches Jerra referring to her ambition of studying and moving on. Jerra always refrains and says

A person’s past will always be with them; it defines them and can influence the perception of them to those around him. Their past can impact their future and their morals. There are many characters to choose from to write about this topic but I prefer a certain one. This person’s past affects everyone around him and helps aid the book in the right direction.

“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.

However the gileadean society, values the aspect of present events more than us, being an indication of Atwood to return into the present as to be scared by the future before it is too late. As time is relative, our perception of it can change aswell. Resulting in the sorrowful comprehension that we missed a great part of our lives. “ Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.”

Fitzgerald implements a first party narrative through Nick Caraway’s recollection of the events of the plot in order to effectively demonstrate the scarring, yet beneficial, effects of memories on the current mindset of individuals. The story is of Nick’s past, whose memories are

this chapter, shows how the past played a significant part in the present and affects it.On the

It wasn’t until Nathan started going to W.E. Waters when his views changed on his priorities. Being around his “own people” distracted him from seeing what his true goal in life was. Now, instead of focusing on his education, he instead focused on the latest trends and worried about fitting into the social scene believing that he “had to work on getting [his]

A main theme of this book, is the importance of living in the present, instead of dwelling on the past. Many of the characters in this novel carried a nostalgic perspective on life, and it influenced their attitude towards the present. It was very common for the characters to tell stories from their past. Jim often relates incidents in the present, to things that happened to him in the past. Jim is not the only one focusing on the past, however. For example, Peter, one of the Russian immigrants, has a very romanticized idea of the past, which causes him to have a depressed attitude towards the present. Jim observed this on one particular meeting, “Once, while [Peter] was looking at Ántonia, he sighed and told us that if he had stayed at home in Russia perhaps by this time he would have had a pretty daughter of his own to cook and keep house for him.” Peter allowed the idea of ‘what if I had...’ to interfere with his future. Because of the adults "what if" attitude, the teens of this novel have a sense of urgency in their lives. They witness how nostalgic the adults, and they themselves, are becoming, and come to a realization. The good days are the first to pass, and the most fleeting. Jim takes this as an excuse to be nostalgic on the past, a past he was not even there to witness. He looked at the wilderness of his new home, and fantasized about how wonderful it’s past was, “Beyond the pond, on the slope that climbed to the cornfield, there was, faintly marked in the grass, a great circle where the Indians used to ride. Jake and Otto were sure that when they galloped round that ring the Indians tortured prisoners, bound to a stake in the centre; but grandfather thought they merely ran races or trained horses there. […] The old figure stirred me as it had never done before.” Jim looks at the past with wonderment - it is a place that was much more ideal than his present. Unlike him,

The events from the past matter because they have already occurred and some will likely repeat in the future. The past is a group of mistakes and successes that someone can learn about and learn from so that they do not make the same mistakes:, instead, they create more successes. The literary devices that the author used in this novel are symbolism, imagery, and allegory. In Jack Gantos’s narrative Dead End in Norvelt, he uses the theme of remembering history to demonstrate that past mistakes should be learned from, and therefore, avoided;. Yet, also allowing people to grow and improve their overall human nature.

One of the officers proceeded to walk around the side of the neighbors home which lead to the back yard.The officer then flashed his flashlight around he then observed a male suspect squatting by a fence.He then ordered the suspect to stop as well as identifying himself as a police officer. The suspect

GULDEN requested his vehicle to be parked in the parking lot across the street if allowed. I advised that it would be fine. Off BOWMAN moved the vehicle and secured the car for GULDEN. PITKITUS had a friend come to the location of the stop to pick him up. GULDEN was transported back to the police dept. after the blood test where the same friend from before waited to give him a ride home. The friend who transported them was Adam JEVELLE in a Dodge Ram pick-up.

“Ok! It was an accident, but then why did she drove away, she might have called the ambulance and saved their life!. It was 7:00 in the morning and there was no one on the road. So, she just sneaked away and let them suffer.” After that, she broke into tears, lyla was surprised to see sally’s reaction instead of calming her down she was shocked and pale.

The bizarre fact regarding people, is they can be given everything necessary to live: food, water, shelter yet the way a person interacts with the world is majorly influenced by numerous other factors. Intimate relationships, such as the consistent involvement of family, is one factor that has an immense impact on how humans respond to different situations in life. Melinda Sordino, a high school student at Merryweather high, had been raped, at a party a couple weeks before freshman year. She deeply felt that nobody cared leading her to have socially distant herself from everyone and no longer putting any mindfulness into her outward appearance. Just in the matter of a few weeks, an entirely new Melinda had been fashioned without even the slightest acknowledgment or concern from her parents causing a chain of followed reactions.

This book is so eye opening, it makes you realize how much words affect others. In this book there’s a quote that says, “You can’t rewrite the past.”. This means that whatever you said, has been said, you can’t do anything about it. “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people.” This teaches people to think before they act, think about how much it could affect them. Overall, this novel would make a great impact on your life so I suggest you to read it!