How Can A Memorial Represent The Past?
Societies want to provide educational morals and role model for everyone. One way to do that is with a memorial. Memorials can then depict the past, but is it possible to represent the past with truth? Thus, what intent do memorials have? Do they try to accurately depict the past and heroes of people who died in such a tragic events? In the “Empire Of Innocence” by Patricia Nelson Limerick, she tries to give different angles and views, in order to more accurately show the past. John Edgar Wideman, an African-American born in Pittsburgh to a working-class family writes an essay, “Our Time” in which Wideman clarifies his propose; to find the truths of his family’s past. While many people try to show the past, a memorial only shows the partial truth. In society, a memorial respects those from the past and also respects cultural pride. The New England Holocaust Memorial is a six towered columns, which each tower prints the names of one million concentration camp victims, symbolizing six million Jews that died during the Holocaust. What was the intent? Is memorial representing the souls of who died and a consequence of a revenge. For example Robby anger of Garths death made be a different person, as Wideman states “My mother h
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Approximate Word count = 1559
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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