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The memories also play a dual role as they make the man hopeful yet they also scare him because he is afraid that through remembering things again and again he might taint his memories of the good times forever. “He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.” (McCarthy 51). The boy although carries on hoping even though all he has are memories of the polluted grey ashes that have always been falling from the sky, the ashes that he was born into. The child has no memories of a past world that held beauty and color and so he relies on his father’s accounts and stories of the past to imagine a world that was anything but the bleakness that he is so accustomed to. But the father, although mostly indulges to the child’s wishes, sometimes cannot bring himself to tell him made up stories of the past because as much as he wants to he cannot remember a lot of it and when he does remember it, it reminds of a world that is no more and that he does not know will ever come back into existence or not. “What would you like? But he stopped making things up because those things were not true either and the telling made him feel bad.” (McCarthy 22). Where at first the child believes the father’s accounts of heroes and stories of courage

In the story “Blue against White”, the author, Jeannette C. Armstrong, writes about a native girl coming home to her reserve after spending time in the city. The topic of memories is very apparent throughout the story as the main character, Lena, is reminiscing through most of it. Whether we like it or not, life always goes on and sometimes, there are things we don’t really pay attention to until it’s too late. Memories can help to keep the past alive and get us through some pretty tough situations. In the story, Lena thinks about her time in the city and how she got through it with her memories of the place she grew up in. Armstrong represents her idea of memory of the past in her text with the use of the blue door as a symbol, comparing

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

Memories can be as short-lived as the moments that created them. The recollection of events and the deterioration of memories over time is a constant process that cannot be stopped. This inevitable passing of memory is fused to the inevitable passing of human life. Emily Davis’s still life photograph of wineglasses is reflective and fragmented, allowing the image to act as a metaphor for this fleeting aspect of memory through its own memory-like qualities. The photograph is also symbolic of the transience of human life through the use of the traditional symbol of the wineglass, ultimately serving as memento mori.

Generally believed to have begun in Florence, the Renaissance – also known as the ‘Rebirth’ – was a period of reviving interest in classical art and the beginning of scientific revolution. The Renaissance period did not begin abruptly; instead, it was an idea that took shape since the time of the painter Giotto (Gombrich 2007). In the early Renaissance period, Giotto experimented with and laid the foundation for painting with perspective, a method that was refined and perfected by later painters and sculptors. The period towards the end of the fifteenth century was known as the High Renaissance. It was the apex of artistic innovations, techniques, and productions. The height of the

This is an anti-smoking advertisement geared towards parents of young children. The advertisement is overall plain and simple; it gets straight to the point when you look at it and utilizes a dark theme. This anti-smoking advertisement is trying to evoke a sense of “parental guilt” into parents who smoke. The way the advertisement is able to do this is through the use of an optical illusion, use of text and the use of negative space.

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.

The Dark Age of Greece refers to a period of time where all knowledge of Mycenae construction, painting, sculpture, reading and writing disintegrated due to Dorian invasion. One form of art that continued through the period of the Mycenaean downfall was the art of pottery. Pottery, more specifically vase painting, was the beginning of an illustrative development in Greek art and was considered a durable form of art because it ensured the survival of artifacts for long periods of time unlike other forms of art. The emergence of independent city-states within Greece took place around the 8th century, which in turn led to the formation of colonies to facilitate trade

In addition to this, belonging to a family is a key concept in this novel. The novel opens with an alluring introduction to the family; a blissful atmosphere is created through the picturesque icons of their family life. The composer uses small photograph like icons to allude towards the widely acknowledged contentment that is readily associated with the memories in a picture album. Tan introduces the motif of the paper crane which he carries through the length of his novel as a symbol of affection and belonging between the family members. The next pages signify the break in contentment as the man begins his journey and a salient image of the couple with their hands grasping the other’s parallels the anxiety and despair in their downcast facial expressions. Although the gloomy atmosphere, the light sepia tones in the picture allow an insight into the tender and loving relationship that the family members share. Upon the man’s departure the paper crane motif returns and he hands it to his daughter as a token of his undying love for her. His migratory experience is studded by the comfort and ease that he obtains from a picture of his family. In paralleled scenes on the boat and the new apartment, the

The second setting is the five-story building with a small underground restaurant. This building, which symbolizes the duality of Broadway, contradicts the lavish appearance of the lower floors and the tacky appearance of the upper floors. The hallway, which leads to a curtained home, has the opposite meaning of Broadway. The reason the people's look walking on the beautiful roads are ambiguous is that they know the dark and frustrating atmosphere of the hallway. Also, the green door, in the middle of the hallway, can be connected by its color. The most common place to see green in everyday life is nature. The colors of nature such as trees and flowers help to restore the mind and body. Thirdly is the entrance to the theater compared to the green door. Situated in the center of the main street this theater boasts spectacular majesty and makes people happy. When viewing from the color wheel, the scene with the neon sign turns on shows the contrast of complementary hues with green, which symbolizes comfort. In this respect, the fourth, the evening time, is a device that helps them to show a clearer contrast by highlighting only green and

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.

This must have been added by the director to emphasis the eventual truth if a crisis like this was to occur into amy's world. under the graffiti billboard there are small fires, which isn't visible in this current shot but is visible a few seconds later, the fact that it is under the graffiti billboard it may suggest that humans, like they always have will completely destroy earth before they leave which is evident throughout the whole film which is a harsh wakeup call for the audience as the possibility of the world turning just as it is picured in the film for the year 2027 is really high because of effects just as global warming pollution waters becoming contaminated by plastics and harmful chemicals. The lighting in this shot is again very moody and grey which is done to continue with the films overall moody atmosphere and

Memories are a humans’s small time-machines for traveling to their past at anytime. The relation found in Li’s story also in Villawood Mum’s about how they crossed boundaries physically but they kept holding on to their memories, their memories were the only bridge to their old lives. Crossing a specific boundary may not be just physical, it is also metaphorically and that’s has a giant impact on the psychological state. So when Li left his family and moved on to start his career in the Ballet Academy, he spent the first years in the school in remembrance of his old life and he didn’t move forward because he was stuck between his past and present. His family was always there with him and he mentioned that in this line: “I couldn’t stop thinking of my family back home.”(-p.118), his memories lived within him and the evidence is the acknowledgment of many details, stories and photos that are found in his autobiography. Photos are the best way to translate a moment and keep it alive for ever. Li had all his pictures kept and they are shown in his autography, and this can be related to the Villawood Mums, they’ve kept all their old photos and that’s clearly shown in the film, when Maria and Zahoor were talking about their old lives. The technique used is ‘symbolism’, because they used the images to present the importances of their memories that they had kept. So crossing the boundaries

Question mark is the symbol that runs through your head when you try to remember something that recently has gone away. Why is it that we forget that, which is the most important to us? What was it? You ponder and struggle to remember what it was. Has the memory returned yet? Perhaps not. Is having any type of memory important in our daily lives? If so, which do you remember the most of? In Kazou Ishiguro’s novel, The Buried Giant, Ishiguro deals with a couple named Axl and Beatrice, who go into an adventure where they meet other characters such as a young Saxon warrior Edwin. One theme that is constantly brought upon in the novel is the relevance of memory as a whole. Even though the meaning of family is evident between the elderly couple, Beatrice and Axl, Ishiguro generates a society and specifically for Axl, Beatrice, and Edwin where memory is lost and dreaded, thereby creating the importance of memory signifying that we should value others and what we remember by using abnormal dreams, remembering thoughts that unite each other, creating fear, and serving as motivation.

The book’s underlying themes and meanings are: the true meaning of love and pain, memories are important because without them we will not have wisdom. In my opinion, the author’s purpose in writing this book is for us to think about such