To the Moon is a storyline game that tells a story of an old man, John, who wants to accomplish his wish to go to the moon and the two doctors, Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene who are from the Sigmund Corp and help John to make his wish come true. They use a special machine that can enter into the patient’s mind and track back his memory to find out the reason why John wants to go to the moon.
The climax of To the Moon is that the Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene have different opinions. Dr. Watts believes that they should not remove River, John’s wife who died, from John’s memory. But Dr. Rosalene thinks that if they want to reach their goal, to help John go to the moon, they should erase River from John’s memory. Dr. Watts and Dr. Rossalene play the role of God in the game, To the Moon. They know every little thing in John’s life and they can also change his previous life. When this conflict showed up first, I stood on the side with Dr. Watts. I did not think it is good for people to change other’s memory. Memory is something that happened before. It is realistic and truth. It records both our happiness and annoyance. No matter what happens on you, it is your unique thing that no one can replace.
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Rosalene. The outcome of getting rid of River did not affect John’s life much and even makes it better. Even though Dr. Rosalene wants to change John’s memory, River comes back. Because of her comes back, John’s life is better because River is the most important person in John’s life. At the same time, they fulfil the task to help John go to moon. iJohn is a person who is facing death. The revision of his previous memory will not affect the truth that he is going to die. His wish of going to the moon is his die wish. Why don’t Watts and Rosalene make his wish come true and let him die happily? In the end, it is a win-win situation. Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene accomplish their task and John realizes his
The idea of belonging is primal and fundamental. It is human nature to want to belong. In Medicine River, written by Thomas King, the desire to belong is crucial to the character development of the protagonist, Will. Belonging is represented in various ways throughout the text but the changes to Will are mainly conveyed through two channels: from community and from family.
= Memory is the process of storing information and experiences for possible retrieval at some point in the future. This ability to create and retrieve memories is fundamental to all aspects of cognition and in a broader sense it is essential to our ability to function properly as human beings. Our memories allow us to store information about the world so that we can understand and deal with future situations on the basis of past experience. The process of thinking and problem solving relies heavily on the use of previous experience and memory also makes it possible for us to acquire language and to communicate with others. Memory also plays a basic part in the process of perception, since we can only make sense of our perceptual input by referring to our store of previous experiences.
Several chapters in Thomas King’s “Medicine River” deal with times in people’s lives when they were in a shadow, or a dark time. In each of these stories, Will uses a similar story from his past to elaborate more on the root concept of the hardship, and draw references to how they were handled in the past. In this way, the reader is given a unique view into Will’s personal memories and is therefore able to better understand his thoughts and actions on these occasions based on the experiences he’s had.
She realizes that Abigail wishes to see her dead in order to win him. Abigail's envy for John causes her to ignore moral issues and to coldly pursue John regardless of who stands in her way.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
As largely out of place Linda is, she still manages to have a sense of love and affection towards John. It is insignificant to John's already made choices as to whether or not Linda truly cares. Yet, it still dwells on shaping the boy’s decisions. Firstly, when John talks to Bernard about his memories they are brief and John chooses not to think too much of them and accepts the fact that they happened. This proves John’s optimism towards difficult situations. Also, he never held a grudge against his mother for being so socially unacceptable and making it hard for John to live his own way. In the end John still held onto her. Another way John shows optimism is how he deals with the bullies in the reservation. Instead of keeping it on his mind how mean and rude the other boys where, the raggedy boy instead thought about how h...
and that it is his duty to "try and change that. " This honesty is essential to the relationship between Rivers and his patients. At this... ... middle of paper ...
The conflict of the story is that John must over come his fears and go
This is why John is able to think freely. John lacked the uniform development that every other child in the world goes through. Seeing these two, Bernard returns them to the World State. Bernard takes Linda and John to see his boss, the Director. The Director is so shocked he runs out of the lab in embarrassment.
The two main characters in the story are the narrator, and her husband John who is her doctor. These characters greatly affect the story in many ways. On top of the narrator who is instrumental, because it is her story, without John the narrator would have never been prescribed the resting treatment and would have eventually escaped her depression by creative expression. Without John, the writing style of the story would be much different. Because the narrator was not allowed to do anything but rest, she had to sneak in bits of writing between times that she saw him.
She remembers a nightmare where she did not know where or who or what she was, nor what was happening. “Do you know she is going to die, Jewel?” Darl said. “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die.” I said to Dewey Dell: “You want her to die so you can get to town: is that it?”
The Rainy River is a watercourse between Minnesota and Canada which tested O’Brien’s bravery to either enlist in or flee the Vietnam War. O’Brien states that the “The Rainy River… separated one life from another.” He also states that, “...Canadian waters, across... dotted line between two different worlds.” When he was in the river, he sees “hallucination” of his family and friends which reminded him of “ the embarrassment” he felt for running away. The Rainy River symbolized the rebirth of O’Brien into a new world. He also uses symbolism to portray the old man like a god. Tim O’Brien states that Elroy Berdahl “saved his life”. Tim was lost emotionally when he arrived at Canada. Elroy guided him and “offered exactly what(he) needed”. “He was there at a critical time.” Elroy knew O’Brien situation and wanted to help him make the right choice. On the 7th day, Elroy “guided(him) across the river” and “...must’ve planned it.” That day, the necessity of making a choice once and for all becomes clear to O’Brien.
John, the husband of the narrator, believes based on his professional knowledge that it is better for her to stay in a room until she makes a sense of improvement. The authoritative role that John plays in the story makes him the independent variable due to his actions of manipulation, lack of empathy, and absence of concern over what her wife needs to say. Even though the narrator wants to be heard, she remains with a submissive attitude throughout the story making her the dependent variable by leaving her entire illness inside John’s hands[responsibility]. John at this point has the power to take her condition to a total different direction but instead decides to ignore what she has to say and completely rely on his assumptions, which evidently lead to a tragic
He seems to make all of the decisions for her and makes her feel belittled and irritated. Being her physician gives him the ability and power to tell her that nothing is wrong with her, and he basically does not take her seriously, which only makes her mental health get worse. John prescribes rest for her and places her into a room which is covered in yellow wallpaper that she finds repulsive. One thing that is very important is how the room used to be a nursery. This is ironic because she is almost treated as a child, and she is not allowed to see her own baby....
Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. We all use memory in our everyday lives. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. We all reassure ourselves that our memories are accurate and precise. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from the event and the different features of the situation. Yet, people don’t realize the fact that the more you think about a situation the more likely the story will change. Our memories are not a camcorder or a camera. Our memory tends to be very selective and reconstructive.