MEMORY

Return to Word List By: Denise and Charlie Whoever else works on this-you can add to the list if you have ideas. I figured out 2 examples that we can use, I just don't have my book so I can't get teh quotes/do those specific explinations. Lemme know if you need help with anything. ** *MEMORY* **

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|| ** Positive ** || ** Negative ** || ||  Remember happy events  ||  Remember sad events  || || Bonds are formed (friendship)  ||  Bonds are broken (friendship)  || || Ability to keep precident  ||  //Memory can be forgotten/ Alzheimers// || ||  Ability to act (like in plays/movies)  ||  Can torment individuals  || || Keep promises  ||  Hold grudges  || ||   //Build wisdom//    ||    Can have regrets    || ||      Nostalgia ||     Can scare people ||
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**NEGATIVE - Memory can be forgotten** This passage illustrates a time when a tragic disaster is swallowed up in the shadows of lost memories.

"In the three kitchens where Jose Arcadio Segundo stopped on his way before reaching home they told him the same thing: "There Weren't any dead." He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one by one on top of the other and could find no trace of the massacre." (308)

When the memory is all that is left, its value is of great importance. The loss of such a memory is catastrophic. The loss of all rememberance of the massacre meant three thousand usless deaths with no justice brought to the murderers.

Enlightenment thinker Dabid Hume argued that human minds are made up of experiences and the connnections people make between them. It is the build up of memories and the connections created between these memories that allow for more knowledgable decisions to be made. Melquiades was able to connect his memories of a sickness to the forgetfullness that was taking hold of Macondo and was able to end it on page 49. This is a clear example of memories' ability to improve wisdom.
 * POSITIVE - Build wisdom**