Annotated Bibliography for Red Suitcase

Summary

These findings suggested that memory is not as objective as society might believe in, what we remember are not the details itself but the feeling experienced under that condition, which is the reason why traumatic events are often remembered deeply. However, if it’s emotions that guide our memory then there’s the chance that the negative emotion developed harms the individual, and one of the common effects is PTSD. Moreover, scholars have recognized that memories are often reconstructed through the interaction of new events, therefore it’s hard to verify the truthiness of memory if only one individual is presented in an event. With this knowledge in mind, I evaluate my own experience of losing memory of a failed kidnap in my childhood through the form of creative writing. After reading some guides on how to form creative writing, I came to the idea of considering traverse to be the main form that I’m writing into. Under the guidance of my previous reading of Kindred and 12 Again, which both presented traverse in different aspects, my storyline was formed quite easily after that.