Kuhn's Remembrance

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The essential message of Annette’s Kuhn’s “Remembrance” is the importance that one single image carries, and the flashbacks we perceive just by glancing at it. Kuhn describes her family album as well as pictures of her own, like the one where she’s holding a bird, while sitting on a chair. The value that pictures carry within are beautifully described when Kuhn states “memories evoked by a photo do not simply spring out of the image itself, but are generated in an intertext of discourses that shift between past and present, spectator and image, and between all these cultural contexts, historical moments” (397). To the author, the image is a memory recorder, and not something that should or could be analyzed. Similarly, to the concept and the …show more content…

The Starbucks at Main Street Square was my only friend. Sometimes I’d ride the rail to Hermann Park. There’s this stone where I always found myself looking for. The stone was my comfort place, and had the perfect angle to look at people, and wonder where they come from, who they miss and what they’re sorry of. Spending my afternoons after school gazing at strangers was the only thing I could do, since my communicating skills were equaled to zero. The November’s weather was quite chilly, and I had put my cold hands in the pocket of a jacket my mother had insisted that I take. As I’m pulling out my phone to listen to Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata,” there’s this piece of “paper” that falls on the ground. The “paper” was a photograph of my mother holding the five-year-old me. Behind the paper, my mother’s handwriting said; “for when you feel lost.” Within the intervals that happen between seconds, I went back to the times where life was simple, and home was the place where my mother was. It never occurred to me that the feelings a single paper held, were the feelings you might never get from people. As I got lost on what was caught on the film, all the little memories long after I had forgotten came back. “A photograph can certainly throw you out of the scent.”

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