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memory of medicine
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Michael Johnson
MWF 9:05-9:55
February 2, 2002
The essay Memory as Medicine: The Power of Recollection in Ceremony is effective in establishing the connection between Tayos gradual healing to his gradual recollection of past events. Scarberry is also successful in showing the importance of memory as a way of healing an entire group of people. ... She writes, "since memory is a repository for the cultural traditions of a given people, the act of recollection benefits not only individual beings but the collective as well"(p. ... Scarberry says, "by coming to terms with his memory, Tayo assumes responsibility for the quality of his own life and for the old ways"(p. ... Scarberry writes, "the Army doctors had forbidden Tayo any Indian medicine, yet their own medicine drained memory out of his thin arms and replaced it with a twilight cloud behind his eyes"(p. ... Betonie explains that memory of himself and his people is his medicine and that it is his responsibility to help himself.
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Title: memory of medicine
Words: 800
Rating: None
Pages: 3.2
submitted by: hambone4
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