The Memory Police: Top-Scoring Sample Essay on Victims and enablers
The Memory Police: Top-Scoring Sample Essay on Victims and enablers
'The characters in The Memory Police are not merely victims but also enablers of their oppressive society.' Do you agree?
A full length (~1,200 word) essay on Yoko Ogawa's novel, covering:
• Genuine victimhood established first, through the violent lexical field of the searches, the officers who refuse to remove their shoes, and the psychological control mirrored in the novel within the novel
• Complacency and its causes, from the quiet dismantling of the roses to the recognition that each disappearance leaves the islanders less able to resist the next
• Complicity in their own erasure, in the passive phrasing of objects having "been disappeared" and the islanders who burn and bury what remains
Top-scoring sample essay written by a 49-scoring student and current tutor at Hello Smart. Close attention to Ogawa's symbolism, her use of mise en abyme, and the Japanese cultural context.
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