Memories In David Huebert's The CBC Short Story

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The CBC short story award winning Enigma by Canadian writer David Huebert displays many memories. Memories that have significance to the author, memories that shift throughout the text, and memories that express emotion. The memories that have significance to Huebert are the family relations interests, and experiences. The memories shift to a more idealized memory for most people. The emotion appeals to the reader through relatability. The authors family ties play a huge roll in Huebert’s short story. Some further research shows that Huebert’s sister took interest in horseback riding throughout her life, so this could lead to the inspiration of the horse in the story. Some more research shows that before Huebert wrote this story, his sister’s horse died and that would explain the phrase, “your horse is lame and life for a lame horse is no life at all.” (Huebert). The horse was probably used because David Huebert is taking a PhD in animal species. In the first paragraph of the memory. …show more content…

At the beginning of the story Huebert explains assorted memories, most likely related to his life. As the story progresses he makes a memory of someone who he is not, “Girl goes whale-watching” (Huebert). This paragraph is almost a cliche life, stuff that is relatable to many people. For example: girl applies to college, gets accepted, finds a job, finds love, starts a family and settles down. This is a very common situation for people, many people have lived this type of life. If you haven’t lived this life you definitely know someone who has. This idealized life that is very common is put in here because it can give the reader something that they understand because they live or lived this life and/or because they know someone who

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