Here i am share my presentation of new literature

1. The Role of memory in The Sense of an Ending
Name: Maru Janak J
Roll No:20
Paper:13 (New Literature)
M.A: Sem-4
Email:marujanak17@gmail.com
Submitted To: Smt.S.B. Gardi Department of
English M.K. Bhavnagar University

2.  The Sense of an Ending
is, a novel written by
Famous British author
Julian Barnes.
 This novel was released
on 4th August 2011 in the
United Kingdom.
 The Sense of an Ending
is a Grey,Grim, Near-
Perfect Novella.
Introduction

3. About Memory
 Memory connected to mind.
 It means something about experiences of past or
recalling the past.
 It is positive or negative.
 Perspective of narrator.
 We can’t relied in it totally because it is the
experience of narrator and so may be it is constructed
also.
 The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man
coming to terms with the mutable past.
 In this novel Tony Webster is the narrator, 60 years
old fellow recalls his memories.

4. Event
Time
Memory
“Memory is a mirror of Human Being”

5. School Days
 Three Friends of Tony- Colin, Alex and Adrian
Finn.
 Class of History: Teacher of History asked
questions about Henry Eighth, Characteristics of
the age, First World War etc.
 Symbol of Watch: It is the symbol of their
bond, they used to wear watches with the face on
the inside of the wrist.
 Class of English: Teacher of English Phil
Dixon- a young master just down from
Cambridge.

6. Continue…
 But Tony Webster can’t understand poem and he thinks that it is
about barn owl.
 Sports: Three of them considered school sports crypto-fascist plan
fro repressing their sex-drive, Adrian joined the fencing club and did
the high jump.
 School situated at Central London, description of their lifestyle in
London
 Idea of Parenthood: How parents behave with adolescence
children?
 Colin’s mother referred Tony as his ‘dark angel’
 Parents doubt their adolescent friendship, and thinks that it is
homosexual relationship.

7. Suicide of Robson
He was in Science Sixth.
 Rumor spread that Robson had got his girlfriend pregnant,
hanged himself in the attic, and not been found for two days.
 Idea of Virginity
 Eros & Thanatos- Adrian connected before the day’s first lesson.
‘Thanatos wins again.’
 ‘Camus said that suicide was the only true philosophical
question.’
 Conclusion of Suicide: Arithmetical sense of the term- increase
of one in the human population.

8. Tony’s affair with Veronica
 Veronica Mary Elizabeth Ford was reading Spanish, she liked poetry, father was a
civil servant.
 He remembered that his bookshelves were more successful with Veronica than his
record collection.
 Veronica shelves-held a lot of poetry, in volume and pamphlet form: Eliot, Auden,
MacNeice, Stevie Smith, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes.
 He measure her personality to see books- they seemed to be an organic
continuation of her mind and personality.
 So many times Veronica argued with Tony. When he remember Phil Dixon and
Ted Hughes at that time she replied that,
‘Poets don’t run out of material the way novelist.’
 He remembered that she was five months older than him and sometimes made it
feel like five years.
 He never asker her whether she is virgin or not.

9. Letter fromMrs. 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 hoped for me.”
 Tony preserved this letter for proof.

10.  The top one contained a brief 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 reasons. ‘Let’s meet and talk. Bar at the Charing X
Hotel? Phone me. Alex.’
 In the letter he wrote that “He cut his wrists in the bath.”
Letter from Alex to Tony