The Color of Water: Remembering the Past

Philosopher George Santayana said: "People who do not remember the past are being condemned to repeat the past." The history of learning is a necessary condition to avoid people making the same mistake. Whether it is the glory of the country or individuals' misery, past analyzes have provided valuable lessons to people of all ages. They can absorb wisdom and adjust current behavior. James McBride explains this concept when he is looking for his mother Ruth's old days and his new world, in a memoir of "Water Color: Blacks Respect His White Mother". To do.

Nagg and Nellmanage evoke shared memory, but each memory version is different: Nell remembers the depth and color of water, and her emotional happiness. The excitement after the "story" caused him to repeat the story in the play. This example shows that memory tries to evoke the past real scene and talks about the reliability of trying to establish the scene, but the different descriptions in the past weaken each other, and the causality and consistency of the event Overturned, separated from one another and certain past. Endgame 's Nagg and Nell try to evoke a common past to unify current limitations and individual restrictions. However, to awaken the past through memory is another purpose. Memory emphasizes the personality of memory rather than unity, revealing that it is always personal and never shared. (56 A, "57)

Memory is more like a puzzle than picture. In order to remember past events, we have compiled various memory elements and forget some of the things that happened normally (wall color, background picture, exact words spoken). Providing details helps us form common concepts. We are good at remembering the point of what happens and we are not good at remembering all the elements of the past scenes (taking pictures). What is important for memory is the meaning of the content being presented and is not precise details that always exist.