Role of memory in the sense of an Ending
- 1. Role of Memory in The Sense of an Ending • Name :pipavat Gopi • Roll No. : 25 • Topic : Role of Memory in The Sense of an Ending • Paper No.13 The New Literature • Submitted To: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
- 2. Introduction of the Julian Barns • Born : 19 January 1946 (age 69) Leicester , England • Full name : Julian Patrick Barns Pan name : Dan Cavanaugh (crime fiction ) Edward Pyggye Occupation : Writer Nationality : English Genre : Novel , short stories , Essays , Memory
- 3. The Sense of an Ending novel divided into two parts 1. Memory 2. Documentation.
- 4. How memory plays a vital role in The Sense of an Ending? • - Memory School Days Three Friends of Tony- Colin, Alex and Adrian Finn • Henry Eighth, Characteristics of the age, First World War etc. • Symbol of Watch: It is the symbol of their bond, they used to wear watches with the face on the inside of the wrist. Class of English: Teacher of English Phil Dixon- a young
- 5. Suicide of Robson • He was in Science Sixth. Rumor spread that Robson had got his girlfriend pregnant, hanged himself in the attic, and not been found for two days. Idea of Virginity, Eros, & Thanatos.
- 6. • Tony's affair with Veronica • Break up of Tony and Veronica Veronica’s meeting with Tony’s friends. • Once time she asked Tony that ‘ Do you ever think about where our relationship is heading? At that time she told Tony as coward. But Tony thinks that he is peaceable. Arguments between Tony and Veronica He remembered the words ‘heading’, ‘stagnating', and ‘peaceable’. He never thought of himself as peaceable or its opposite- until then. Events of Seven Bore At last they parted.
- 7. • Letter from Adrian to Tony In this letter Adrian said he was writing to ask his permission to go out with Veronica. It is the suggestion of Veronica that Adrian should write this letter.
- 8. Part 2 Documentation • Mrs. Sarah Ford gave Tony to 5oo pounds with one envelope. Tony wants email of Veronica and her brother gave it. Veronica replied to Tony as “Blood Money”. Tony can’t understand these words. He thought that no blood had been spilt. Veronica hadn’t sent him the first page, or at last, or indicated.where this one came in the diary
- 9. • This is an internal novel that sits in the recesses of the mind. The narrator is soliloquizing for a significant portion of the book, grappling with his ignorance of the past–not the past in the sense of history, but his personal past. He feels that he should have the authoritative say on the metaphorical transcript of his own life. Ironically, he finds that his personal history lacks an objective ruling.
- 10. • Our pasts shape our identity, but it is not a one- way street. We shape our understanding of our history by forgetting the ugly things and remembering the attractive memories.” So, in a sense, with our tunnel vision, we create who we are by a altering our memories. And who can question such a re- creation if there are no witnesses to our internal thoughts and our secret deeds, or rather our perception of our thoughts and deeds.
- 11. • to understand The Sense of an Ending, we need to grasp Julian Barnes’s goal in giving us an unreliable narrator. We doubt our narrator’s ability to tell us what actually happened with Adrian and Veronica. As Tony unreavels these hidden truths, Veronica is constantly reminding him of his ignorance when she repeats the refrain, “You still don’t get it. You never did.” And that is what Barnes is making us consider.