Memory Keepers Daughter Literary Analysis Essay

Kim Edwards shows through the whole go for that we ar only hu piece of music, the themes that smell is beyond our promise and through the connection amid suffering and contentment. Edwards uses fleck to set up a sort of conduct schedule. It goes in golf club into the future hardly occasionally skips old age ahead. She also cleverly sets the word of honor up so that each year, or chapter has both sides of the boloney, that of Caroline who is bringing up Phoebe and and then the life of Norah and David raising their intelligence capital of Minnesota.As the book starts off it is that of a happy tone with Norah giving birth and then leading to a depressing and melancholy tone as Dr. heat content lies to his wife telling her that their daughter has died, to save her from the discommode of their daughter having tidy sum syndrome. Norah gains much and more depression as the days go on, forever and a day investigateing what if. With all the depression going on in the s tory line of Norah there is a gain of strength in Carolines story line as she adjures Phoebe. This shows the theme of suffering and joy.The desire that even though the character is suffering they are the one with the near about joy. Norah Henry has it all the doctor economise, money and a healthy son only when still wants what she neer had her daughter. Caroline has struggled with at first the ending to keep Phoebe and raise her as her suffer, then struggling with actually raising this bollix girl with down syndrome simply and with no one, but she is joyful in the book never having the depression that plagues Norah and her marriage with David Henry.When Caroline finally sees David 18 years later, she says You missed a lot of heartache, sure. exclusively David, you missed a lot of joy. In the theme that life is beyond our control the rootage Kim Edwards has the book move through the years rapidly and at a fast pace in baseball club to demonstrate how life flys by. Thro ughout the book Edwards uses teary as a metaphor showing the character Davids growing obsession with taking photographs as a desperate attempt to make while bear out still Photo after photo, as if he could stop time or make an image powerful nough to obscure the moment when he turned and handed his daughter to Caroline Gill. aliveness whitethorn also feel as it is out of their control with there be a constant aura of uncertainty or what if quality. That being said, the characters in the end will always wonder what life would take aim been give care if David had never given his daughter past, but find it exhausting to wonder once they are brought together in the end after the closing of David. As Paul reflects at the end of the novel His mother was the right way he could never know what might have happened.All he had were the facts. Life was also seeming to be out of anyones control with the struggle of the melancholy tone through the novel with Norah becoming more and mor e depressed becoming that of a drinker in Pauls young life and then being so hard-pressed with her marriage with David for him being so distant that she has an affair with a man while she is on a trip to Aruba with her job. Even with the tone the author seems to have it progress in a rapid fashion estimable as the years fly by in the story line.Life is inevitable, people make mistakes, and the mistakes people make have great conflict and effect not only them, but the people around them just as David Henrys mistake haunted his life and hag-ridden that of his wifes. In day to day life there are always the people that make mistakes with honourable intentions. The authors point wasnt to all make David the antagonist in the story but yet he was that one person whos mistake was made with half hearted good intentions, he wanted to spare his doting wife the pain of having to raise one child with down syndrome, he didnt want her to speak up that it was her fault in anyway.David just w anted the problem to go outside not fully realizing that the problem wasnt his daughter it was him having to cumulation with his own past. David Henrys sister died at the young age of cardinal and she had down syndrome as well, it is really sad that this character couldnt deal with his own past so much that he ruined his afford and his future. He knew the pain that his sister having down syndrome had left on him and her closing that not only was he try to spare his wife the pain of having a daughter with down syndrome but yet the author was trying to convey to the reader that he also did it to protect his son from it as well.Norah becomes the character you feel bad for not a protagonist but yet just that good character whos life unfold before her is the result of decisions from those around her. She is constantly depressed from thinking she mazed her daughter, then she is also gaining more and more eternal sadness with her husband not letting her gain any sort of closure with this or even to simply tell her the truth of his actions and what he had done. The relationship between Norah and David grows further and further apart with him setting himself more distant from her as time goes on due to his guilty conscious eating away at him.Then on a happy note you have Caroline, she turned her whole life around for the life choices of David and that of herself. She raises Phoebe alone at first always fighting for more advanced skill abilities for down syndrome, she gains a man in her life named Al who helped her in the very beginning get to shelter when she had decided to keep the baby but then her car wont start in the center(a) of a blizzard, he becomes her knight in shining armor.Al becomes a big character having sought out Caroline after years and years of that first encounter with her and stays in her life sweet and caring for both her and Phoebe, he becomes the father figure Phoebe never got to have. Kim Edwards set up all the right kind of characters for this plot and in every right way to maturate the novel. In the end the themes of life being out of our control and the connection between suffering and joy are evident throughout the story.Kim Edwards used immense characterization that helped to develop those following themes with having the right selection of types of characters. The plot definitely has to do with development the story, for it ties in with the life is out of our control theme having time go by so rapidly demonstrating that life is always constant and never stopping or standing still like a photograph for anyone or anything.Photos represent memories in life, David became enthralled with taking photographs in an essay to make time stop, maybe capture the memory he had when he made the decision to give his daughter away. The metaphor of David and his taking pictures ties into the denomination the memory custodians daughter for he was the memory keeper, the keeper of the biggest life secret and lie. Kim Edward s made everything tie together with literary elements of metaphor, characterization, and Plot.