Reply To: Remembering and Forgetting (Year 2, Sun. Gr 1)

[Anonymous]

For Jill Price, living with this memory has its pros and cons. Her memory skills have been with her since early childhood, so they are an integral part of her life and it would probably be hard to imagine life without them.

Reading the book, you can see that her super ability can be both a curse and a blessing – she has no control over her memory, which works automatically, reminding her of things she doesn’t necessarily want to remember – for example, every unpleasant thing she’s heard about herself, arguments and disappointments.
But she also has the ability to “visit” good memories when she feels like it, which she uses as a way to improve her mood.