January Gill O Neil's Early Memory

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After reading this poem Early Memory by January Gill O’Neil, one can learn that the author is revealing that the girl really had no pity or regret for throwing sand in the child's eyes. She had no thought or regret in inflicting pain on the other child. When she saw the robber pull the chain off the woman, the main character saw the pain in the victim’s eyes. Pulling a gold chain of your neck isn’t the most comforting thing. When she saw the woman's pain and the robber’s not bothered or painless expression, she thought her memory about the pain she caused by throwing sand in the child’s eyes. She thought that memory was important, because she must have felt that she had relations to the criminal, she was an adult and that memory still bothers

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