The Importance Of Memories In John Gan's To The Moon

The Twin of the Truth is One’s Memories Memories are a recollection of experiences one recalls and keeps with them in their hearts and mind. Kan Gan’s interactive novel, To The Moon, primarily illustrates the differentiation of truth and memory throughout the entire play. Gan establishes that a memory is not necessarily the truth, even though one may gain greater happiness from it. Some memories are fabricated by people to remember happier times and to forget the worst. Over a period of time, one starts to believe in this fabrication of the truth to actually be the truth. This is because ones beliefs in the memory is so strong that they suppress the reality of an event and only remembers want they desire to be the truth. Dr. Rosalene’s actions were too extreme and very risky towards the procedure as Johnny could have permanently lost the memory of his wife, River. Even though Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts were contracted for the very purpose of giving Johnny the memory of going to the moon, Dr. Rosalene crossed a limit in fulfilling the assignment. Dr. Watts valued Johnny’s memory of his late wife and knew the future was uncertain, the issue could have resulted in several ways. …show more content…
American novelist, Barbara Kingsolver once said, “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin” (Kingsolver). Memories and truth are intertwined, one does not exist without the other. Sure, most memories bring comfortable and peace of mind when altered and modified into what one desires the truth to be. However, to keep the truth suppressed within will only prolong the inevitable. The truth cannot be suppressed for long; in time truth will surface and cause a greatly devastation as one will realize that the memory was a mere fantasy. Truth must be accepted and faced head on to avoid such pain and aid in moving forward in the reality of