The Most Painful Memories Are The Most Powerful?

1.) The most painful memories are obviously the most memorable and the most powerful because their sentiment sticks with the reader and forces them to sympathize with the speaker. The most memorable examples would be those of when the speaker recalls how he used to rationalize his father’s drinking as a kid; especially die to the fact he has admitted the truth to what is behind his father’s behavior to himself – but still feel like that small helpless kid that could only watch his own father suffer. The elaboration of these specific memories speak lengths to the character of the speaker due to the fact he had felt such an unecessary burden of responsibility at such a young age.

2.) It means that the horrors of his father’s drinking and the

It should also be noted that he also progresses with the extent and scope of which his father’s drinking affects other people, and how he continued to get farther and farther away from the point of which he could still receive help. He organizes it in this fashion in order to address each of his triggers to the remembrance and anxiety over his childhood trauma, to acknowledge what ignites memory to his painful past, and to try to make sense of it in order to make peace with it.

5.) Because it was only a short period of time when his father was actually sober during his childhood. One’s childhood is one’s most crucial years for physical and psychological development; and his father was rarely sober for long during them. Also, the short windows of time in which Sander’s father was actually sober was only until after he had matured into adolescence and was already precocious enough to take care of himself. Also, it might have been due to the fact that the subject of the essay is his father’s alcoholism and the how he had to pay for it – not his brief stint in

Sanders avoids falling into what would be justifiable traps of self-pity, all through acceptance of his past. He is not angry with his father; and this is apparent due to the fact that he continually attempts to find excuses for his father’s drinking habits. He never really blames him in fact, he only blames his ‘disease’. Also, it should be noted that his lack of self-pity could be due to either of two reasons: either the fact that through his catharsis with the instrument of his essay he has healed enough to whole-heartedly accept his past; or he has avoided self-pity due to the fact he has filled himself with self-deprecation and sense of guilt in not being able to save his father, since he himself was strong enough to becoming helpless prey to his