Distortion Of Memory Analysis

Young’s analysis in his article “Texture of Memory” brings up the role changing of monuments within the modern and contemporary society. She describes how people have different memories and different places and people may look at places and see them as how they were once looked at and a remembered to be or, have a brand new idea or thought towards the landscape. She says within her paper “ New generations visit memorials under new circumstances and invest them with new meanings.” Throughout the reading she continues to mention that “memorials” recall tragic events and provide places to mourn, while “monuments” are considered as celebratory markers and may be heroic individuals. Certain architecture changes as it becomes involved in modern