Memento Mori

I’m going to write about a short story called Memento Mori by Jonathon Nolan. My interest for this short story came after I watched an indie movie by Jonathon’s brother Christopher called Memento which is based on this short story. The story is about man named Earl who couldn’t develop new memories, every 10 minutes or so it would be like his brain hit the refresh button and he wouldn’t remember what happened before that. He owes this condition to an unknown character who attacked him and his wife, his wife ended up dying and Earl was left with this condition after being hit in the head. What I understood as the main theme is that sometimes people can’t let go or forget about events that happened in the past, in some way they pin themselves to the past and create a personal hell. The essence of Earls sickness contributed a lot to the theme. The author puts the character into a very though spot giving him a mental problem that makes any escape from his situation impossible. Author creates conditions that limit possibilities for the main character and keep him in a strap. To emphasis the fatality of the situation the author brings the reader’s attention to the root …show more content…
The author is trying to tell us that many of us have the ability to forget and appreciate little things in life instead we focus on something we may imagine is significant. After reading the story it is kind of interesting to see which interpretation or theme Christopher chose for the movie, which not far from mine. It is more than just a simple story about a person with a mental condition, some parts of the movie make the viewer think that main character actually wants to reject the reality and wants to keep playing his mental game, it could be that he was the one who killed his wife and made this whole scene in his head to cope with