The Dead
"The Dead" by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year's eve party held by two sisters,Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner anddance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out thegood emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. Through experiences people make memories. People attach things to thosememories emotionally that lets them remember how pleasant or painful those memorieswhere. Some people attach such things as songs, sounds, pictures, sights or even theweather to memories. If someone was to fall in love while being at the beach then thesound of the waves crashing against the sand could bring back pleasant memories. If acouple was voted king and queen of there senior prom then the song that they danced towould bring back pleasant memories. If you attended your first professional baseball gameat Camden Yards then a picture of the stadium might bring back pleasant memories. All things that are emotionally attached to memo
"His name, said Aunt Kate, "was Parkinson. People attach things to memories to help them remember even ifthose memories are painful. Gretta seemed to be troubled by something andwhen Gabriel asked her what she was thinking about she answered "O, I am thinkingabout that song, The Lass of Aughrim. Everyone else heardFreddy say that the tenor was a Negro and they assumed that he wasn't any good becauseof the color of his skin. In this story the reader get to see how emotions, bad or good, can be brought backby memories. Whether its a song, sound, sight or picture it will have some kind of emotional effect onhow that person perceive his or her memories. 148) Then she started to cry and Gabriel triedto comfort her and asked her why she was crying. When Miss Kate thought of the tenor'svoice it brought back pleasant memories because it reminded her of how she felt when sheheard it. Gabriel comforted Gretta until she fell asleep. ries don't always bring backpleasant memories. The reader gets to see how characters in the story attach such things assongs and sounds to the emotions that certain memories make them feel. Every memorythat people have has something attached to it to make them remember how they feel. Every red car that person saw could bring back painful memories.
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