{"id":398,"date":"2017-02-07T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-02-19T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T12:51:36","slug":"forgetting-the-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/02\/07\/forgetting-the-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting The Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout A Head Full of Ghosts<\/em>, I had always thought that adding “The Last Final Girl” blog chapters, which analyze the show and surrounding events directly, put more space between myself the reader and the supposed real events recanted by Merry in the book. \u00a0I was still unsure of what purpose it served within the story of A Head Full of Ghosts<\/em> as a whole, other than to give us information about the Possession’s actual television episodes. \u00a0I had been wondering why Tremblay would create this alias (Karen Brissette) for\u00a0Merry to write about the show, instead of just having her recall the episodes as they pertained to events that happened, drawing conclusions, comparing, and contrasting the two side-by-side, rather separating them.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the book, I learned of what happened to the family during the end of the show and post-production, i.e. the poisoning. \u00a0With this new information, I realized just how painful all of the memories related to the show must be. \u00a0It began to make more sense to me why Merry would create an alias to write about the show as if she had not experienced it. \u00a0It seemed to me like she was trying to convince herself that she had not lived those experiences, and I think Rachel puts it perfectly when she asks Merry how she found the “distance” (pg. 257) to write about the events of the show. \u00a0I believe that the blog was a way for her to create<\/em> that distance. \u00a0In the blog “Karen,” while speaking about the dinner on the show the night of the exorcism, writes “Mmmm . . . Chinese Food. . .” as if the Merry behind those words had not recalled never being able to stand the taste of the Chinese\u00a0duck sauce because of that night.<\/p>\n

Merry writes the blog as Karen, in order to create a much-needed distance between herself and the events related to the show, in order to help her forgetfully\u00a0remember the traumatic experiences.<\/p>\n

Image from: here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Works Cited:
\nTremblay, Paul.\u00a0A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel<\/i>. New York, NY: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout A Head Full of Ghosts, I had always thought that adding “The Last Final Girl” blog chapters, which analyze the show and surrounding events directly, put more space between myself the reader and the supposed real events recanted by Merry in the book. \u00a0I was still unsure of what purpose it served within the … <\/p>\n

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