Early Memory Summary

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People have little moments that end up being important, things that they reflect on throughout their lives. In the poem Early Memory by January Gill O’Neil the author brings up a memory moment of the time that she threw sand in a kid’s eyes and the feeling she had when she got caught. She brings this up because she saw a guy pull a gold chain off a girl's neck on the street and the moment came up because she knew that feeling that that guy had because she had that same feeling when she threw the sand in the kids eyes, that feeling of just wanting to get your anger out. She felt this way because in the poem it states “There must have been such rage in me, to give such pain to another person,” she as a child, didn't really know why she was feeling

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