Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
Role of Memory The Sense of an Ending
1. ROLE OF MEMORY IN THE
SENSE OF AN ENDING
PREPARED BY: KAILAS GOHIL
2. ABOUT JULIAN BARNES:
• Julian Barnes is an English Writer.
• He was won the man Booker Prize for his
Book ‘The Sense of an Ending’.
• Three of his earlier books had been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
• His work...
- Flaubert’s Parrot
- The Only Story
- The Noise of Time
3. • MEMORY OF SCHOOL DAY
• The novel sense of an ending the first
part begins in the 1960.
• The novel begins with four
intellectually arrogant school friends.
• When they were in the last year of
the school, Robson killed himself
after getting a girl pregnant.
• The four friends discussed the death
Philosophically.
4. SUICIDE OF ROBSON
• He was in science sixth.
• Rumor spread that Robson had got this girlfriend pregnant, hanged himself
in the attic, and not been found for two days.
• Idea of virginity
• Eros and Thanatos- Adrian connected before the days first lesson.
• 'Thanatos wins again’
• “Camus said that suicide was the only true Philosophical questions.”
5. TONY’S AFFAIR WITH VERONICA
• Veronica marry Elizabeth Ford was
reading Spanish, She liked poetry father
was a civil servent.
• He remembered that his bookshelves
were more successful with Veronica than
his record collection.
• He measure her personality to see books
they seemed to be an organic
continuation of her mind and personality.
• “Poets don’t run of material the way
novelist”.
6. BREAK UP TO TONY AND VERONICA
• Veronica’s meeting with Tony’s friends.
• Once time she asked tony that ‘ Do you ever think about where our
relationship is heading.
• He remembered the words ‘heading’, stagnating’, and ‘Peaceable’.
• Event of seven bore.
7. LETTER FROM MRS. SARAH FORD TO
TONY WEBSTER
• Letter was brief, she wrote in the letter that,
• “She was sorry to hear we had broken up, and sure I would find
someone more suitable. But she didn’t appear to mean this in the
sense that. I was a scoundrel who deserved someone of equally low
moral character. Rather, she implied the opposite: that I was well out
of things, and she hopped for me”.
• Tomy preserved this letter for proof.
8. LETTER FROM ADRIAN TO TONY
• In this letter Adrian said he was writing to ask his permission to go out
with Veronica.
• It is the suggestion of Veronica that Adrian should write this.
9. LETTER FROM ALEX TO TONY
• The top one contained abrief note from Alex, ‘ Dear Tony’, it read, Adrian
died. He killed himself.
• To avoid engaging with this line of theory, I opened Alex’s second letter.
• He said that Adrian had done it very efficiently, and left a full account of his
reason.
• “ Let’s meet an talk. Bar at the Charing X hotel? Phone me, Alex”.
• In the letter he wrote that “ He cut his wrists in the bath”.
• He had kiiled himself in a flat he shared with two fellow postgraduates.
• ‘Do not enter- call police- Adrian’.
10. MARRIAGE OF TONY’ WEBSTER
• He started work as a trainer in arts administration.
• Then he met Margaret: they married, and three yaers latter Susie was
born.
• After a dozen years Margaret took up with a fellow who run a
restaurant.
• Suise grew up, and people started calling her Susan, when she was
twenty four, he walked her up the aisle of a registere office.
• Ken is a doctor: they have two kids now, a boy and a girl.
11. • CONCLUSION
• History is also like this
• Individual’s personal history may be different than the reality
• One can’t trust memory
• Enough documents are necessary
