Light In August Lesson Plan

Discuss what the opening line of Chapter 6 might mean: "Memory believes before knowing remembers" (119).

This statement likely means that the function of memory is faster and therefore unable to be completely captured by the capacity of knowledge, or understanding. The novel seems to suggest that what it means by "knowledge" is the capacity of articulation through language, but since the novel also suggests that memory functions somewhat beyond language, then it follows that memory believes, or has faith in its understanding, before knowledge can constitute itself with articulated, language-captured understanding.

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