Name: Neha Mehta Roll No.: 15 Year: 2016 Paper No.13 The New Literature Submitted To: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Role of Memory in Sense Of An Ending

Introduuction

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 novel is divided into two parts.

Part 1

Part 2

The style of the writer is “Memory Novel” or “Suspense Thriller” or “Psychological Thriller” This novel is mainly centered on the characteristics of 21st century writing.

That memory is a part of narrator’s past experience. Not all of which the as yet unnamed narrator actually saw.

If there are lesser accident and event that memory is lesser effective and stronger. More accident or Event that makes more effective and strong memory.

Accident becomes more powerful and that stored much effectively.

Event

Time

Memory

Julian Barnes - “One cannot know what he does not know”

“Blood Money”

“You still don’t get it. You never did, and never will. So stop even trying.”

Tony is the perfect narrator for this novel.But all the narration depends Tony’s Memory

so here raised a doubt that all the things and incident are real or not.

The first is the narrator’s is named Tony, memories of his years of during studies, and school days at school and his early years at university.

“The memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches. It’s a bit like the black box aero planes carry to record what happens in a crash. If

nothing goes wrong, the tape erases itself. So if you do crash, it’s obvious why you did; if you don’t,

then the log of your journey is much less clear.”

As class room interaction, we have seen that Memory is a mirror of oneself. Whatever is stored in the memory that can be a real personality of that person.

MEMORY IS THE MIROR THE HUMAN BEING

"I have a brother who‘s philosopher," Barnes says. "He maintains that almost all memories are false, all fallible, and that memory is the act of imagination, rather than the act of a lucid remembering machine somewhere up in our brains.

This thing is explained that “When we are near to death or critical condition at that time we recalls all good thing which is occurred in our past and we recalls all the good memories.

Ø b = s – v x/+ a1Ø a2 + v + a1 X s = b

This novel is based on memory which Tony recalls all the event of his past and that narration is generating a story which is called “Sense of an Ending”.