A memory to last a lifetime

Submitted by: Alexander Isidori

Submitted to: Mr Costa
ENG4U1-02
Date: May 26 2019
Memento Mori

In life, I try to remember what it is I am here for, or I try to remember how to

forget everything that I dwell on. Though we all are guilty of it. A character like Earl is

interesting. Earl seems to be both dynamic and static. Though with the condition he

suffers from the actions we read about to tell us he is more static. Everyday Earl attempts

to re-learn his given purpose. Something changes about him, he becomes that “genius.”

Earl gains that passion and drives to gain knowledge and figure out what exactly it is he

is alive for. Due to the suffering Earl endures he reads the note on page 5 for the “first”

time quite often. Yet every “first” time Earl reads the note, he becomes the Earl who

wrote it. A committed man, a man that will try to understand more. A man that will only

search as long as his memory allows him. Life requires us to remember. When our ability

to do so is gone, life becomes a mess. Upside down, spinning in circles trying to look for

answers to the questions we do not know.

Memento

To fit my reality I conjure up other ideas to suit the needs of living. Though a

dangerous game it is one that many people play. Leonard is Sammy Jenkins. Leonard is

hopeless, left wandering around a place with no meaning. Since Leonard has no meaning

he gives himself one. Leonard does so through Sammy Jenkins and John. G. After his

fatal attack Leonard has lost the ability to create memories. His wife could not bear to

live with a man like that. So she has him kill her. In the act of shock, Leonard faces he

conjures up the idea that he was not the one who killed his wife but the attacker. Leonard

becomes fearful to remember but happy to remember how to forget. The reality Leonard

conjures up gives him a purpose. Something everyone scavenges for. Gives Leonard the
sense of being complete. Life gives a purpose to abide by, and I have not found mine yet.

I am scared of being vulnerable so I conjure up ideas to give my reality a purpose.