The Seven Realms: Cuffs

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

Memories are important, they are a personal record of our past experiences, and could be called the history book for our life. In the poem "The Heroes You Had as a Girl", author Bronwen Wallace tells the story of a woman who meets her high school hero later in her life, reflects on her memories of him, and ultimately decides not to talk to him. The effect that this topic has on everyone is the knowledge that we can be captivated and let our memories control us, and by knowing that our memories hold that much power, it may make it more mentally efficient to make accurate, and personal decisions in a fraction of the time. The topic and overall meaning that this idea holds convey a message that resonates with the idea that memories are in fact the central hub of our decision making. People remembering memories can affect their perspective on their lives to such an extent, that they prefer to immerse their mind in their past memories rather than the current reality.

“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.

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

The value of memory is an important aspect in a person’s life because most of the time our brains will go back into our memory and recall past events weather them being good or bad. Memory plays a part in every human being’s life, whether it may be about a great loss of someone you loved dearly or it be a great gift like having a child or a miracle happen like getting a perfect score on your SATs. Memory will always be an aspect in everyone’s life. In the passage, “Hope, Despair, and Memory” by Elie Wiesel, and in the excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger the value of memory are treated in both worthy and harmful ways using diction, repetition, and theme.

Throughout life, people gain and lose memories. The texts “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins and “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White both have a theme of memories, and how the past affects the future or present. Both authors use syntax and diction to show the themes. Everybody has memories, like their first birthday party, learning how to ride a bike, or even going to a lake with their family when they were younger. These memories from the past affects the present/future. Some memories that are stronger than others stay with the person and come up later in their life, while some memories just fade away into nothingness. The authors use syntax and diction in the texts “Forgetfulness” and “Once More to the Lake” to show a theme of how past memories affect the present/future.

Memories influence more than just the past. Their many roles affect the present and future in many different ways. Memories determine how you act and how you feel in the different circumstances of your life. Memory’s variety of uses makes it very significant in lives of every human being.

Life happens, you breathe, I walk. You make the basketball team, I make decisions that determine the rest of my life. It's hard to understand where memories come from, and where they go. Like blowing seeds of a dandelion globe, off into eternal distance, never to be seen again. Memories are bound to fade, with what seems like little wisps left. Time determines when that happens, but it seems as if some memories never fade. When a door opens, it can slam shut just as easily. Memories determine the path we take, and who we become. Memories are just time capsules we hold in our minds that allow us to hold on to the past. Despite the fact that memories are bound to fade, the ones that stay help us grow into who we are. Memories are a

Memories are directly linked to emotions and can even be the cause of certain emotions. For example, two people in romantic relationships developed feelings for each other over time. If one of them got brain damage and developed retrograde amnesia, or the inability to recall memories from before the amnesia-causing incident, they would not recall any of the memories involving their partner prior to that, making their attraction fade or even disappear. This can also be applied to friendships; if you lost your memories concerning your friend, you won’t have an emotional bond with your friend anymore.

Memory is one of our greatest assets. “It is how we know who we are. Memory gives us a sense of history, our origin, roots, and identity. By it we relive special events, birthdays, anniversaries and days of national significance. The Lord’s Supper is a call to remember Christ and the cross.” The relationships we have in our lives often become stronger as we take time to reflect on what that person has done for us in the past and continues to do for us. As adults we are able to look back and see the sacrifices our parents made for us and we realize just how much they

Another reason memories are important is if you have something important you need to remember without memories it would all be forgotten like parties, laughing, when

Memory has no physical form, yet it can make us feel physical pain depending on what the memory consists of. The main Characters, Sethe and Paul D, have memories of being forced to wear iron bits, watch their loved ones be killed, and have something as intimate as their breast milk be stolen from them. These are not the kind of memories that Sethe or Paul D would like to rememeber. Rather These are the kinds of memories that-- they and anyone in their situation--would rather forget.

A memory is something that is remembered from the past. Memory is what makes us, because

From a psychological point of view, “memory is the ability to store and retrieve information over time” (Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, & Nock, 2015). Usually, you hear adults speaking of their childhood, and something funny they remember their grandparents doing. This is what memory is, remembering a funny childhood moment or even what they done yesterday and recall it to someone else.

“Memories are special moments that tell our story”-Unknow, the person that said that meant that Memory plays a big role in our life, it allows us to remember skills that we’ve learned, or important information that we have stored in our brain or its moments that are great or changed our life. Memory gives us a portal to something gone something we can’t get back, something that made a big change in our life.