From the very moment we enter this world, there is a phenomenon that connects us to past moments in our lives. This is the often overlooked concept of memories. In Conway’s book When Memory Speaks, she stresses the importance of memories through her linear progression of events and her phrases/explicit diction in order to prove that memory holds great power and we must use it wisely.
Conway creates this passage in such a manner that the reader is originally introduced with a persuasive and to-the-point statement. “Until we lose it we take memory for granted”. Right from the start she establishes the importance of memories. She then shifts from the introduction to many different ways we can remember the past and the outcomes that accompany them. Conway starts off with negative and…show more content… She then gradually builds up towards the main and most appealing point she wants to get across which is that “if we see our past as a moral and spiritual journey in time, our imagined future will continue that quest”. This makes the reader want to view memories more spiritually and intuitively. By showing the effects that the remembrance of the past can have on the outcomes of our lives, Conway reinforces the fact that memories hold great power because they more or less control our future which is a reason why we should use them wisely. She then goes on to speak about how our life is “guided by an inner life plot” and that through our memories “capture universals in human experience”. Conway then speaks about techniques to draft memoirs exclaiming that memories allow us to “experience life differently from the inherited version” and make
