Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Memento
This story has been the most interesting one so far, even though its another confusing story. i feel like in the story the man has two personalities. Himself who had a wife and now apparently lost his mind and the one who wrote all the notes that he reads everyday and if maybe his other personality is the one actually making him have amnesia. when you first start reading, it makes you believe that theses notes are supposed to be there to help him since he forgets everything in a matter of minutes, but later on the more notes he read, the more it seems like it someone speaking to him and the tone of how they write the letters, it seems like if its himself writing them. Also when it meantion that he has " i raped and killed your wife" tattooed on himself, was the biggest clue of why i though this was why he has a double personality. Also they always talking about in the momment and how time restricts everyones life and since he forgets everything including time he is not restricted and lives on in just the momments of life instead of the future, which is wear am guessing the title comes from Memento.
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You are right that in the short story it is almost as if there are two separate and distinct characters. Which is kind of the point--Earl's loss of memory has so fragmented him, his identity is in shards. There is NO continuity between the Earl of 10 minutes ago and the Earl of now.
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