Works cited: http://www.napavalley.edu/people/LYanover/Documents/English%20121/English%20121%20Aimee%20Bender%20The%20Rememberer.pdf
Reverse evolution- losing memory and emotion
Baboon: wisdom, science and measurement
Sea turtle: determination, good luck, endurance
Salamander: immorality and rebirth
"Remeberer"~ perhaps dementia and Alzheimers- double entendre to narrator who is also remembering Ben.
One will lose memories, or maybe become the remembered so someone else must be the rememberer.
She had to give up in fear of finally seeing nothing. Her fear caused her to set him free, and yet, she still has hope he'll return.
April,
ReplyDeleteI really like your last point about her giving up Ben because of her fear of him eventually becoming nothing. This way, with her choosing to set him free, she doesn't see him disappear, so she can keep that hope of him still being out there alive. I never put those together before reading your post, but it makes a lot of sense. It is much easier to deal with losing someone if you think that they could possibly one day return, but if you actually see that something is definitively gone, that would be a lot harder to deal with. Thanks for your thoughts!