Part one of term paper
The essay "Memory and Imagination" by Patricia Hampl, is the essay that I enjoyed reading the most out of all the others. I find she is very honest in her essay. The title itself tells you that it will be about memory, but it makes you wonder about how imagination relates to it. She mentions that Sister Olive Marie’s grandfather invented t ...

Part two of term paper
... the beginning of the essay, she says that Sister Olive Marie’s grandfather invented the collapsible opera hat. Later on she says that it was not Olive but a girl who she named Mary Katherine Reilly. She was a girl whom she had played the piano in duets with her. The reason she remembers this is because in a way she envied that girl. She did not feel like her family had anything special. “ ... I had nothing as remarkable in my own background? “(248). We remember things not because we want to ...