We were told to read and annote things on "history and memory" - but WHAT exactly? The whole book seems to be about the guy looking to the past (memory) around the holocaust (history), so what exactly do we annote? Im a little confused...
And if you would like, you can explain a little about what the story is about
Thanks
Horrible... Horrible writer that man is... The book is essentially the story of a man writing a book. I was half expecting one of the chapters to say something like "and i picked up the pen, and began to write... the ink flowed as ... etc. for the next few hundred pages or so on his experiences writing the book"
What you want to be doing is annotating quotes, important sections or whatever, and the annotations should be how the part
uniquely relates to History and memory in these
standard ways:
1. It demonstates that history is bias
2. It demonstrates that memory is bias
3. It demonstrates that Memory goes throught social filters
4. It demonstrates the concept of a collective memory, or a collective history, ie what most people recount, is what happened.
5. It represents how History can aid/support/put tension on/interact with memory.
6. i forgot.
7. Memory appeals to human emotions
8. History focuses more on documented events, and facts.
9. the view that history is superior to memory
10. the idea that history dictates the past, rather than the past dictating history.
These 10 things are the "standard" ideas they want you to use as topic sentences in your essay. (besides 6. which escapes me)
