2) He is writing this article because he is trying to address why there has been an increase on writing down memories on the past few globe events. He mentions what are the origins of the memory boom and why the subject of war and holocaust inspires a large range of memories. Winters …show more content…
He points out how the growth of people going to higher education had double from the 1960s until the 1990. The purpose of this section is to show the reader how the world population was changing as higher education and. In this section Mr. White is trying to show how society had change since the 1960s impact the approach to memory. History and Family History: Vectors of Transmission section is about how family is important to the approach to memory. Mr. White points out how people who lived through the Blitz could show their grandchildren to what it meant to live through the Blitz by taking them to the Imperial War Museum in London. Novels written about war took the readers back in time to show what life was like for families who loved during this time. The purpose of this section is to show how stories live on to the next generation. Family Memory, Traumatic Memory, and War section is about traumatic memory are recorded and are viewed. He touches upon the impact of World War One trench warfare had on people when they return back from the front lines. Most of the people who were returning from the front lines were impacted by shell shock and it was an unknown idea of the impact of to soldiers. The purpose of this section is to show how traumatic memory can be used to understand what past people went