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Free Catcher In The Rye Essays: Hope, Despair And Memory

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“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory,” Dr. Seuss. Thought and emotions are items that will always last forever inside of humans through thick and thin. Not all the tangible objects given to people will forever withstand their life but the thoughts will always be there for eternity. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from an event and the different features of the situation but, people don’t realize the fact that the more they think about a situation the more the memory will change. The excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and the excerpt, “Hope, Despair and Memory,” from Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Prize lecture both portray the value of memory through the contradictory …show more content…

Salinger and Elie Wiesel both associate the actions in their pieces of literature to sorrow. In the excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye it states, “About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about… It’s funny. Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” All the sadness may be overwhelming for people especially in a time of need. One thought always leads to another and with the meandering stream of consciousness; they could relive it again in that time. No matter what happens, some memories can never be replaced and humans can only strive for the thought of remembering them. Wiesel also mentions sadness when he writes, “If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity. For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope.” Wiesel dealt with a lot of hope as he was living his life in the Holocaust; striving for the day he was going to be free from thus suffrage. Without the longing for an event in the past, memories won’t just appear out of nowhere. Memories are triggered from the basic actions in people’s everyday lives. Recollections may seem to bring contentment but there’s always a great deal of unhappiness to

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