Short Story We Will Remember It For You Wholesale By Phillip K. Dick

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In this essay I will discuss how memory, history and time feature in the short story “We will remember it for you wholesale” by Phillip k. Dick. Using relevant information from the story itself and secondary sources, I will explain how memory affects aspects like one’s personality, desires, emotions and knowledge. I will then explain how history is affected when new information about the past is discovered and how historical events affect the present. I will later discuss how one’s memories affect one’s perception of time, how a person’s values change as time changes and lastly how time affects the overall development mankind.
“We will remember it for you wholesale” is a futuristic science fiction short story by Phillip k. Dick first published in 1987 (Worldcat.org). The story is about Douglas Quail, a clerk who dreams of going to Mars. Unfortunately, as clerk he is unable to do so because only government agents and high officials can travel to Mars. He therefore decides to go to a memory travel agency where he buys a false memory package which is to be installed into his brain to create the illusion that he did go Mars as a government agent. Before the false memories are installed, Douglas begins remembering actual memories of him as a government agent on Mars. …show more content…

According to Dictionary.com, memory is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. It entails the thoughts of events and actions that one has already experienced. History is the record of past events and times, especially relating to humanity (Dictionery.com). It describes the events and actions that have occurred in earlier times but have had an impact on present time. Time is the systematic occurrence, duration and reference of events in relation to each other measured in seconds. It is the measure of how long something happens and when it

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