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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

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For a long time Norah sat very still, agitated, on the edge of knowing. And then suddenly the knowledge was hers, irrevocable, searing: all those years of silence, when he would not speak of their lost daughter, David had been keeping this record of her absence. Paul, and a thousand other girls, all growing. As the title of the story suggests, memory is thematically spread across the narrative in many forms. The story covers the memory as theme from the concept of how it can impact the future course of life to the struggle to define by purposeful forgetting. Decisions in the heat of the moment can be made based on the input of things remembered which actually have little direct significance in that moment. On the other hand, some people make decisions based on memories which are not even real, but have been fed to them externally. Female Empowerment These tulips are so beautiful,” he began, but he was unable to explain himself, unable to put into words why these images compelled him so. Her silence made him free. He talked like a river, like a storm, words rushing through the old house with a force and life he could not stop. […] He talked until the words slowed, ebbed, finally ceased. Silence welled. She turned to him, serious. “I don’t know. I’ll never understand it. But think how his life must have been, Paul. Carrying this secret with him all those years.”

Her footsteps and then the metal, cold and bright as ice, slid against his skin. The tension in his wrists released. […]

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter study guide contains a biography of Edwards, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Caroline said it again: Phoebe, not dead but taken away. All these years. Phoebe, growing up in another city. Safe, Caroline kept saying. Safe, well cared for, loved. Phoebe, her daughter, Paul’s twin. Born with Down syndrome, sent away. He looked across the table. Phoebe was standing next to a poplar tree whose leaves were just beginning to turn, scraping whipped cream off her cake with her fork. “Our lives could have been so much different.”

He closed his eyes, fear rising, because he had seen anger in her eyes, because everything that happened had been his fault. When they reached the car she touched his arm and gestured to the house, veiled with snow and glowing like a lantern in the darkness of the street. The time period covering over the course of the narrative stretches from 1964 to 1989. It is not just random chance that the twin which author chose for the father to give away is the daughter rather than the male. This is symbolic of the thematic exploration of the patriarchal devaluation and authoritarian dominance of females in 1964. Norah, his wife, transforms over that period from a “Suzy Homemaker” to the owner of a success of travel agency. The novel is an exploration of the various ways in which women have made progress in being able to choose their own destinies and shape their own identities. Random FateIt’s a party,” she repeated. “You can either miss it and take pictures of it, or you can get a drink and join it.”

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