Everyone has an experience, a bad dream or a moment that was so horrific you do your best to try and neglect it, pushing it further and further back into your mind. Forgotten until something happens that triggers the memory and you seem to experience the event for a painstaking, second time. Rememory. Sethe has tried to forget most of her life. Rememory is that act of attempting to forget yet the recollection still surfaces …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…the reunion with the community. In other ways the recollection of the turbulent times broke her down, destroyed the strong, proud mannerism she had been able to retain for so long. Everything is stored in one’s rememory, whether or not it is remembered and experienced again depends on the situation, but it is always present. It can be used to protect you from the past and prevent you from moving on into the future.