The Setting Of Alzheimer's

The setting of a story sets the tone for what the story is going to be like. Alzheimer's is a terrible disease. A person with Alzheimer's could forget so many important aspects of his life. The setting plays a huge part in this poem. Setting could make or break a story. If the setting does not give the reader insight into the story, or does not go with the story well, then the odds are that the story is not very good either. In “Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry the setting helps him remember his past, gives the reader an insight to what he was like, and helps the reader imagine what the story is saying.

To begin, In “Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry the old man starts remembering his past. The setting helps him remember his past by looking

From what the old man remembers about the activities that he did around the house he must have been a hard worker. Obviously he took pride in his work to remember after all of those years with alzheimer's. The setting gives the reader insight into what the old man was like by what he remembers. “Remembers the walkway he built between the front room, and the garage, the rhododendron he planted in back, the car he used to drive. He remembers himself, A younger man, in a tweed hat, a man who loved Music.” (Lines 16-20) The setting shows that he was a hard worker through all of the jobs that he did around the house. The setting helps the reader imagine him doing all of that and shows what he was like when he was a young man. Changes seem to be occurring in the old man. He went from being a man who would do work and was dedicated to it to a man that does not even remember his own wife and cannot do anything around his house because he will not remember to do it. He would love to remember who she is he even gave up his music which he loves just to figure out who she is. It would seem the disease is affecting him by the contents of his suitcase being shaving cream, a piggy bank, and a book that he cannot even read. It shows that he is not his normal self after getting alzheimer's. He has lost all of his memory. It keeps him from continuing to do what he did back then. He cannot take care of himself and has to have someone take care of him. It use to be he could take care of himself and his wife and whoever else lived with him in his house. Not only can he not take care of them he cannot take care of himself and the work that he needs to do around the