"Amnesia" by Douglas Cooper

Amnesia
<Tab/>Some books are straight-forward stories of day-to-day life in the past or present; such stories are easy to understand because their subject is the surface of things. Reading Amnesia, a book written by Douglas Cooper and published by Random House, is like moving through a dream. Cooper's style suggests waking and dreaming states by discussing situations which seam normal and concrete on the one hand and magical and unrealistic on the other. Discussed in this essay is how the author makes this book useful to the reader by exploring values, emotions, and situations in a way that causes one to reflect on one's own life.
Three values this book promotes are the importance or influence of family as a whole on the individuals of the family; history, both personal and that of society; and the significance of below-the-surface-meanings. How a family interacts has a significant influence and effect on the members of the family and how they grow up and function as individuals.…