The Dead
"The Dead" by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year's eve party held by two sisters,Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner and dance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out the good emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. Through experiences people make memories. People attach things to those memories emotionally that lets them remember how pleasant or painful those memories where. Some people attach such things as songs, sounds, pictures, sights or even the weather to memories. If someone was to fall in love while being at the beach then the sound of the waves crashing against the sand could bring back pleasant memories. If a couple was voted king and queen of there senior prom then the song that they danced to would bring back pleasant memories. If you attended your first professional baseball game at Camden Yards then a picture of the stadium might bring back pleasant memories. All things that are emotionally attached to memo
Freddy attached the sound of the tenor's voice with the way it made him feel. He didn't voice it brought back pleasant memories because it reminded her of how she felt when she about that song, The Lass of Aughrim." (P.148) Then she started to cry and Gabriel tried brought back painful memories for Greta and the memories distracted her from Gabriel. songs and sounds to the emotions that certain memories make them feel. Every memory care what color the man was that the voice was coming out of. Everyone else heard raining when the accident happened then every time it rained it could bring back
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Approximate Word count = 700
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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