I noticed memories have been coming up now a lot in the mystery/serial killer books i've been reading. All of Michael Prescott books and now other authors have female main characters that have a past dealing with the person they are after or have ties to a person that is extremely similiar to their childhood horror. In On the Edge of Darkness, Laura to go back to the home of the and from where i am in the book, the man (Mr. ) was shot and is different in someway. Not just emotionally but also physically. And it affected Lara dramatically because she remembers little bits of the conversatiion and details from what happened.
It makes me realize how much memories impact us in a negative or positive way. I have been looking at this memory idea for a while now and at different angles. With The Giver, i was just saying how we need choices because then we can't lead our own lives if we don't have one. In class my classmates and i did projects on socal action and some projects had choices in them and i commented on them. And now, in this book about how it affects us. Especially with cops and agents, it either motivates them to get the case solved and help whoever needed it or scared because they have already gone down this dark path and something happened to them. But it's not just cops that memories affect, it's regular citizens to. If you have an abusive past, sometimes people become aggresive or see it and get flashbacks of their childghood.
No matter how deep we may bury a memory, we only need one thought, one action to make the memory resurface. And most of th etime, when it's a memory that gives us fear, once we face it and find the cause of why the memory has come back and fixed it, we bury the memory again and sometimes even though it's in our head, we don't remember it again. If it's not remebered rigth away, it's soemhow resurfaced. Not all always but most of the time with our memories that's what happens. And then all these officers and agnets then have these fearing memories that puch and movtivate them to find out th ekiller or abductor or this or that and face 'em,stop them.
I like that you compared books with the same message. It's true that even if you bury a bad memory or sad memory one thing related to that and all the feeling you pushed away are suddenly there to torture you.
ReplyDeleteSince you let me borrow your nook I have read one of these books and the main character had a horrible childhood memory. But one thing I want to question you about is why do you like to read books like these? Is it because you can find out who cause the terrible memories or is it that you want to find out if the endings are similar. Either way good job!!! <3
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I really like reading these books mostly because they are just soooooo good and suspenseful. And i also realize that a lot of these books have similar endings. Thank you by the way!!! <3
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