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Theme Of Two Amazing Tales Of Memory
In the story Two Amazing Tales of Memory Mr s had great memory and strategies to help him remember stuff. Although it wasn't perfect in the reading category it was way better than an average person’s memory. This great memory of his would affect his life in many different ways also affect his personal life. He could remember more important or less important stuff that could make a difference. Mr S could remember important dates that could lead on to big things helping his life. Imagine the good and bad effects this type of memory could to to your life. Mr S memory could also be in a bad way cause he could remember all the bad things that had happened to his life.

Mr S memory could affect his life in a bad way for example in the passage it said that “. When asked to tell the story, however, Mr. S was often in trouble. Again, he would recall his images, but too often
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To tell the story, Mr. S would describe these images, but the resulting jumble of ideas made little sense to his listeners. This often left him confused and frustrated”. This affected his life in a bad way. Let's say that you had to read a book and then write about it for Mr S it would be really difficult based to how fast he could remember and that might affect his memory and he might not be able to have the great memory that he use to have. Also the images that Mr S used to remember would affect him in a bad way for example it said that” Images also prevented Mr. S from expressing himself clearly in conversation. As Mr. S spoke, the words would create images in his mind that were often unrelated to what he was saying. Distracted from his train of thought, he would then begin to talk about these images.” Imagine if you couldn't have a conversation

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