Reply To: “The Lost Mariner” (Year 1, Gr. 1)

[Anonymous]

Our memory is a huge part of our identity, it’s the past that created us the way we are in the present and losing it is kind of like losing yourself as well. In the essay, Jimmie obviously had felt void and couldn’t decide if he enjoys life, because he had no recollection of his life (only until 1945, and glimpses of what happened later on). Although that is important, memory also is necessary in the present life, on how a person is functioning. It is so hard to do things on your own, take care of yourself when you keep forgetting things right away, I would risk to even say it’s impossible and dangerous. What if someone forgets to turn off the stove, or to pay the bills, feed the cat, take their medicine? Our memory is us in every single way possible.