Memories
Think about how well you remember things? Do you remember words or images better? Based off of today's game, how reliable do you think the memories retold by the characters throughout the novel are? I think that it was easier for me to remember everyone else's memory except one because I accidentally got the entire memory wrong. It would be easier for someone to remember if the person gave more details and got their story straight. If everyone is told a different form of the memory, then we would all get it wrong. I believe that I could remember words better than pictures because I am very good at remembering vocabulary words and can recall what someone said years after they said it. I have such a good memory that my mom has me remind her of specific things like her cellphone number (ha ha). Based on our little memory game in AP English class, it made me think that the memories of retold by the characters in The Sound and The Fury are not very reliable because this is each character's interpretation of their memory with Caddy. Everyone has experienced a different memory with Caddy and they may have also spiced up the story too. For example, during the activity, we would get into a circle with the people who we haven't shared our memory with and give them all the details, while the first group did the same thing. It turns out that those who listened to the person's memory one on one will be at a loss because they didn't get all the information of the memory, and some people just added to the memory as they went along. The interpretation of the memory in the book would also depend on the character in the story because Benjy loved his sister Caddy, Quentin loved his sister so much that he would lie to his father and say that he slept with his sister, Jason didn't care at all, but that's because he feels Caddy is a shame, and I don't know about Dilsey, but I am going to say that she cared for her, but she somehow knew that Caddy would become very promiscuous. These are the many ways why people could have their own interpretation of memories.
This is a very interesting post. I have terrible memory and I wish it was a lot better. The idea of why that happens about the memory of the same thing is something I learned in psych, very cool.
ReplyDeleteYou always analyze everything so well! It's nice to have a blog or read one that isnt written craply... Good jod. ^ ^
ReplyDeleteYes I would agree that memories would be shaded and even from telling my memory a couple of times I added or changed or dropped information. First because I had too much stuff in there, but after while time was going too fast! I think it may have been different if we had had consistent time for our tellings and listenings.
ReplyDeleteThats like what I mentioned in my own memory blog. Our memories are very subjective. They are the victims of time and our own feelings.
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