There are certain events in our lives that cannot be told. No matter how hard we try to forget about them, they still haunt our memories. Not everything you encounter will stay in your memory, only the events that are very meaningful and have impacted your life in some way will find a way to glade through your memory. Sometimes, the memories we have built haunt us and the only way to get them out is to accept them, and one way to accept this is through writing. It is hard to find words to express our deepest emotions, that’s why many authors find it easier to express it through their writing. Indeed, you may not recall exactly the way that particular event occurred but how it affected you and your point of view counts the most when writing,
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In both of the books, Hugo Hamilton and Edwidge Danticat jump from one event to another, providing us with decent amount of information so we can put the puzzle pieces together. In The Speckled People, we are introduced to Johannes family being present in Ireland and Johannes being confused whether his mother is crying or laughing, “My father was laughing…my mother had her hand over her mouth…I thought, maybe she’s not laughing at all but crying” (1). However, it is revealed to us on the last page of the book that she was actually crying and not laughing. The purpose for Hugo to choose to write in this spectacularly complex way shows deeper understanding of events. A he writes, he himself starts to comprehend his own life and connect the dots so everything makes sense, just like we see in Brother I’m dying by Edwidge Danticat, “Given all this anxiety, I’m amazed my father wrote at all” (23). Danticat also uses this kind of style to express her feelings and understand her own life by jumping form one event to another, while explaining the reasons behind the events and what caused them to turn the way they did. Therefore, I disagree with Freud’s assertion of book being “worthless”. Just because we have no idea of one’s personal life, doesn’t mean every word they wrote on paper is false. People themselves do not understand the way their lives are affected by their surroundings until they put it on paper and have the ability to skim through their own
In both of the books, Hugo Hamilton and Edwidge Danticat jump from one event to another, providing us with decent amount of information so we can put the puzzle pieces together. In The Speckled People, we are introduced to Johannes family being present in Ireland and Johannes being confused whether his mother is crying or laughing, “My father was laughing…my mother had her hand over her mouth…I thought, maybe she’s not laughing at all but crying” (1). However, it is revealed to us on the last page of the book that she was actually crying and not laughing. The purpose for Hugo to choose to write in this spectacularly complex way shows deeper understanding of events. A he writes, he himself starts to comprehend his own life and connect the dots so everything makes sense, just like we see in Brother I’m dying by Edwidge Danticat, “Given all this anxiety, I’m amazed my father wrote at all” (23). Danticat also uses this kind of style to express her feelings and understand her own life by jumping form one event to another, while explaining the reasons behind the events and what caused them to turn the way they did. Therefore, I disagree with Freud’s assertion of book being “worthless”. Just because we have no idea of one’s personal life, doesn’t mean every word they wrote on paper is false. People themselves do not understand the way their lives are affected by their surroundings until they put it on paper and have the ability to skim through their own