The Remember Aimee Bender

Remembering "The Remember" by Aimee Bender is a short article that touched me deeply after reading it. Annie's unwavering commitment to the relationship after her lover gets lost in memories. In the writing, it can be inferred that Ben's illness is related to memory and intellectual decline. In the first sentence of the story, it is written that "MY LOVER IS experiencing reverse evolution," which describes Ben's condition from a biological perspective, while also arousing readers' curiosity.

Similarly, the author compares Ben to an animal, from the depiction of apes, to turtles, then salamanders, and finally to a single-celled organism that can only be seen under a microscope. It is interesting that when Ben was diagnosed, the author did not directly inform the readers of its purpose, but followed this logic to ask the biology

It can be seen that the teacher mentioned in the writing may have been referring to the identity switch of a doctor, "According to him, the whole process should take about a year, but from the way things are going, I think we have less than a month left." This seems to be the conclusion given by the "biology teacher" about evolution theory, but also indirectly reflects the severity of Ben's condition.

As Annie continued to communicate with her lover, from "Can you understand me" to "Do you remember me," it can be seen that Ben's illness is not far from Alzheimer's disease. This also reminds me of a movie I watched before, "The Father," which tells the story of a father who slowly accepts the changes in his thoughts and reality brought by Alzheimer's disease, but eventually gets trapped in a chaotic timeline and becomes increasingly unaware of the world. This process of change in both thought and