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Memories can be good and memories can be bad. Sometimes memories can be blocked. Sometimes memories can be forgotten. No matter what type of memory you have held onto or lost, remember this; your memories are the foundation for everything you have experienced, and without them, you have nothing to build from. MRS. WATTS: She gets into an argument with Jessie Mae
because she cannot remember where she put her recipe (p.12). MRS. WATTS: She
remembers old songs she used to sing to Ludie (p.10). MRS. WATTS: She
questions the ticket-man to see if he knows any of her friends from
Bountiful. She lists many of them
(p.51). MRS. WATTS: She
begins telling Thelma about when she was a little girl while sitting on the train
(p.41). She goes on to talk about her
Papa and the conditions when she was a child in Bountiful (.42). Later, Mrs. Watts tells Thelma about one
summer when she was a young child going to a dance (p.50). MRS. WATTS: After
approaching her old house, she tells the sheriff stories of her childhood and
speaks about the birds. Her father
never hunted birds or let anyone ever hunt birds on his property. The memory of birds was very special to
her (p.58). JESSIE MAE: She mentions to Ludie that if it weren’t for
her friend, Rosella, she would not have realized that they had been married
for 15 years (p.19). JESSIE MAE: She starts talking to Ludie about
children. Jessie Mae says as long as
she does not think about children, then she does not get upset about never
having children (p.21). JESSIE MAE: She asks Ludie about thinking of the
past. She says that she does not like
to think back on things because it seems “morbid” to her (p.22). JESSIE MAE: Speaks down to Mrs. Watts regarding the
pension check and tells her that she is very “absent minded” and reminds her
of other times she has lost checks (p.26). LUDIE: He vaguely remembers the song his mother used to
sing to him, but he does remember that it used to make him laugh (p10). LUDIE: He admits to his mother in at their old house that
he has been lying to her about not remembering things from Bountiful
(p.62-63).
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