Current Controlling Purpose:
The essays controlling purpose focuses on his interest in memory and an overarching concept that being book/work smart is not everything.
Revised Controlling Purpose:
The essays controlling purpose focuses on the transitions memory is taking from storytelling interactions to forced experiences. Some individuals are able to warp this transition into a perception of innocence. Memoir are a place memories can be expressed and increase the decreasing value of interactions and personal memory. The mind has an amazing ability to express shame and detach ourselves from this to save our minds.
Revised Introduction:
The essay read is Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age by Charles Baxter. This essays controlling purpose focuses on the transitions memory is taking from storytelling to interactions to forced experiences. Some individuals are able to warp this transition into a perception of innocence. Memoir are a place memories can be expressed and increase the decreasing value of interctions and personal memory. The mind has an amazing ability to express shame and detach ourselves from this to save our minds. He labels this the information age, meaning most of our information is derived from books or educational basis and we are losing the storytelling process of face to face discussions. The essay addresses the audience with the importance of his concept of memory and the abilities it holds, remembering certain memories and deleting other memories. Some individuals are able to transform deleting memories into a personal image that portrays them as innocent, a positive attribute. Baxter's goal of accomplishment may be to open the reader's eyes to the infatuated emphasis on written literature while writing our own personal memoir (journal writing) is a way to increase the lost value of interactions and personal memory.
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