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Memory/History - Coggle Diagram
Memory/History
Mandel encourages comparison between the role of history and memory and incites the reader to conclude the superiority of personal memory over impersonal history in society.
The idea of detachment from the Old World is key to taking an objective view. Clark talking about Robert in the past tense
Lived experiences, Kirsten's commemoration of her murders
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Placement of an incomplete list, an impersonal collection of archaic parts of society, right at the beginning of the text, encouraging the reader
The Leander anthology providing an example of memory vs history, relevant to kirsten, arbitrary to all others
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Symbolic use of a plane as the spreader of the flu, the same object that caused the impersonal nature of modern world
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Mandel uses her depiction of the modern World in the retrospective to encourage the reader to identify the important and arbitrary aspects of contemporary society
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An incomplete list, the presentation of aspects of life encourages identification as well as extrapolation
Minimalist setting post-Flu in which very little survives, rebuilding of society
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Concepts
Memory - Personal
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Capacity to recall, positive attribute normally
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History - Public
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Means of control, written by victors etc
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