The memories will stay with you forever. There will be no escape, it will haunt you forever. Having to witness something children should never have. Like the people from Never Fall Down, The Seventh Man and Hiroshima. Their experience caused them to have mental problems and depression. You can try to get help, but if you don’t, the memories will stay with you forever.
In Never Fall Down, Arn experiences something that most children have never experienced and he had to overcome it. Even though he was was not fighting for food or in the war he was haunted by his memories. “Lotta word have this one sound I can’t make: th. Thanks, think, thunder. Also this sound in the middle of some word, some very important word, like bathroom. Very important sound, this th. But we don’t have this sound in Khmer. So my tongue can’t do it. But Pat, she say it over and over and over. Get close to my face, closer and closer she get; her tongue, she show it to me, pushing on her front teeth, like she gonna eat me. And I spit her. Right in the …show more content…
He had to witness something that haunted him for life. “I stopped having nightmares all the time. They remained a part of my life, though. They would come to me now and then, like debt collectors at the door. It happened when I was on the verge of forgetting. And it was always the same dream, down to the smallest detail. I would wake up screaming, my sheets soaked with sweat. That is probably why I never married. I didn’t want to wake someone sleeping next to me with my screams in the middle of the night. I’ve been in love with several women over the years, but I never spent a night with any of them. The terror was in my bones. It was something I could never share with another person” (Murakami 366). Even though he thought he was going to stop having nightmares about his past, it came back when he thought it was gone. It explains that we can’t escape our past, even though you think that you
In Never Fall Down, Arn experiences something that most children have never experienced and he had to overcome it. Even though he was was not fighting for food or in the war he was haunted by his memories. “Lotta word have this one sound I can’t make: th. Thanks, think, thunder. Also this sound in the middle of some word, some very important word, like bathroom. Very important sound, this th. But we don’t have this sound in Khmer. So my tongue can’t do it. But Pat, she say it over and over and over. Get close to my face, closer and closer she get; her tongue, she show it to me, pushing on her front teeth, like she gonna eat me. And I spit her. Right in the …show more content…
He had to witness something that haunted him for life. “I stopped having nightmares all the time. They remained a part of my life, though. They would come to me now and then, like debt collectors at the door. It happened when I was on the verge of forgetting. And it was always the same dream, down to the smallest detail. I would wake up screaming, my sheets soaked with sweat. That is probably why I never married. I didn’t want to wake someone sleeping next to me with my screams in the middle of the night. I’ve been in love with several women over the years, but I never spent a night with any of them. The terror was in my bones. It was something I could never share with another person” (Murakami 366). Even though he thought he was going to stop having nightmares about his past, it came back when he thought it was gone. It explains that we can’t escape our past, even though you think that you