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> 4th Block > By Edward Diaz > I think the narriator repeats the phrase **//"I don't know because I don't remember"//** because she is trying to censor something painfull that happened to her in the past.In the story the narriator's mom dies and I think she is trying not to mention what happened and disguise it with the phrase.Also the story has a lot of figurative speach.For example whan she says her mom was a mermaid, the nariator is disguising the fact she is dead.I think this phrase is more evidence of figurative speach.
 * 1) "I don't know because I don't remember."

mepeople: The author uses the phrase I do not know because I do not remember to hide the bad stuff that happened to the girl. Like when the girl is in the boat she sees all the rotten dead bodies in the water and she describes them all well but then at the end she says " I do not know because I do not remember." At the end of something bad she usually adds magical things to make herself feel good. Like when her mom died and she says I do not know because I do not remember after the phrase that describes what happened she says that her mo became a mermaid. I say this phrase is the nararators way to get away from everything bad but also a gateway for the girls magical imagination.

green shoes. The narrator wants only to remeber the good things that have happened, but when a bad memory comes to her mind she likes to say she does not remember the situation. In one part of the book the narrators says that her aunt told her "the water broiled and roared red and stank,and green plastic garbage rails rolled by. I do not know because I dont remember." As you can see the author does not want to remember anything bad that has happened. I think this is why the author uses magic to explain it. She does not want her memories to be bad, so if she uses magic then she can make a bad occurence into a happy one.

sprinkledillusions: When the narrator uses repetition in the story by saying “I do not know because I do not remember”, it shows that the character is trying desperately to repress a memory of the knowledge of these things happening. The daughter would continue to tell in great detail about the bodies and the flood waters, but then stop herself by saying “But I do now know because I do not remember.” If she really did not remember these things, it doesn’t seem likely that she could describe them the way she did. What she does describe, and admit to remembering, it details of her mother and how graceful and heroic her mother was. At some point she says, “My aunt said I told her mama was a mermaid fulltime now, but I do know remember this.”(Or something like that). The narrator is trying to fight with herself to only imagine her mother as a mermaid, not dead or treated wrongly, but it is getting harder and harder to only remember things in those dream-like illusions. This way, she can romanticize things so that she can hold this image, this memory in her mind of her mother, who she finds a heroine.

Nicholas Pope: Repeating "I do not know because I do not remember," remembers but does not want to. Through out the story the narrator will describe a situation and then finsh with "I do not know because I do not remember." She wants to hide and put away that fatefull night, and saying that is her way of doing it. I say that she remembers because who could ever forget something like that. You may want to forget it, but we all know that it will never happen. That is why "i do not know because I do not remember," is used so much through out the story.

Ana: This phase is repeated over and over all through out the story. Perhaps this could be because the narrator wants to remember her mother's life, situation and conditions she was found in more to herself or so she to can believe her own stories of magic. All this saying "I don't know because I don't remember" is just herself trying to forget the sittuation in which she found her mother in the water. When she say's her mother turned into a full time mermaid she is really saying her mother died for once and for all. This is all a sort of mask in which the narrator wants to hid how she fells about her mother's death.

FAKARI GRESHAM: "**I DO NOT KNOW BECAUSE I DO NOT REMEMBER"** is a phrase that was expressed throughout "AT THE OTHER END OF NOWHERE" alot. The fact was she didnt want to remember, but it was killing her inside. Her mother is dead.(or some kind of fashion). The point is she said this alot of times because everytime her mother is brought up, she tries to say this becuase she doesnt really want to talk about it. Even though my mother hasnt died, I have felt this pain and this was recently. People brought it up around me, but i tried to ignore the fact by walking away or just closing up my ears. In the story she says "I do not know because I do not remember" to try to ignore it.

Aaron Thomas I think the repetition phrase; “I do not know because I do not remember” means that she is not trying to remember. It may have been all good until her mother died. Now she just doesn’t want to remember anything. By not remembering it will stop her from thinking about how her mother died. If she forgets about her memories she has she will forget the dreadful death of her mother. If she has memories and were to remember everything she would constantly be reminded about her mother through her memories now and then or at some point, so by saying she doesn’t know because she doesn’t remember is casting out all the previous memories. She prefers not to remember anything and lets that one bad memory run her life. Her life may be a little easier if she chose to remember things, but she doesn’t.


 * CrazeSus142011:** The repetition of this phrase in the story is covering up bad memories that she doesn't really feel like telling her audience about. She's telling them as her aunt Bebe told her, and then she says that she "doesn't know because she doesn't remember" because technically she didn't remember what happened. She only "knows" about what happened because her Aunt Bebe told her what happened how she remembered it. So she uses this phrase a lot to embed the fact that she's telling us what her aunt said in our minds. She wants us to know that she doesn't remember this, that she onlys "knows" about it because her aunt told her about it.

Sharina Walton: I think that she says "**I don't know because I don't remember**" because she either dosen't want to feel the pain of her mothers death, she really doesn't remember, or she is tryin to block it out. It is already hard to see someone die espially a loved one, now think if it was your mother. She must have had to have gone through a lot. She was also very young when the storm hit and her mother died. Aunt Bebe hopeful made it easier on her to cope with.

__**Ken Booker:**__ I think the repetion of I dont know because i don't remember reveals a lot about the narrator. I think the narrator says this because she does not want to remember what has happened to her mother. The thought of her mom dying is unbarable to the narrator. Through the story whenever the narrator recalls something bad that has happened she says she does not remember it. In one part of the story the narrator says," the water broiled and roared red and stank, and green plastic garbage rails rolled by. I dont know because i don't remember." I think this proves the point i have made. She does not want to remember the bad. On page 7 in the book the narrator says she only remebers her mothers sea apple green tennis shoes. The narrator only wants to remeber the good thoughts but not the bad thoughts.

__Josh Carruth__ Throught the story, the repitition of "I dont know because I dont remember" was made because of the way the young girl felt. Everytime she rememberd somthing about her mother it hurt her so much that she didnt wont to remember it anymore.So thats why she always said "I dont know because I dont remember.

__Destinee Heard__ I think that the reason why this particular quote was used in this story for repetition is because she told many stories that she chose not to remember. Like for example, when she told the story of when they found her mom's dead body and she said,"I do not know because I do not remember". I think since most of the things she mentioned were bad memories, she says this quote before she goes on to the bad part she doesn't want remember. Then when she used this quote saying,"The water, she says, broiled and roared red and stank, and green plastic garbage palis roiled by. I do not talk about it because i do not remember." I think she says this so that she can stop before she gets to the grousome and horrible parts.

__GiannisPowers__ In this story, the narrator uses the term //I don't know because I don't remember// many times. When her mother dies, and they find her body, the girl //says I don't know// //because I don't remember// even though she clearly saw the body. This shows that she just doesn't want to remember the bad things. In the book, the girl says that she only remebers her mother's sea apple green tennis shoes. The narrator wants to remember the good things, and not the bad things.

Cassi14:

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 * "I don't know I don't remember",** was used a lot because every bad memory relates to her mothers death she doesn't remember, because no one wants to remember bad memories. I'm guessing she blocks out all the good and bad memories from her mom and acts as if they never happened, so she doesn't have to feel the pain again.

OneSongGlory14: The phrase "I do not know, because I don't remember" Is used several times within the story. The narrator uses this phrase to show that she does not wan to remember something, even though she does. The narrator uses this phrase when her aunt talks about her mother dying and she says "I do not know because I don't remember". She uses this phrase to try and forget something bad that has happened in her past. After all, if you tell yourself something over and over again, you begin to believe that whatever you're telling yourself is true. Say you told yourself you had a big nose. Well eventually you would have yourself believing that your nose was huge. The same with this phrase. She keeps telling herself that she "can't remember" and she eventually will forget. Even though at the moment she can recall every detail of the situation, she is telling herself that she doesn't remember so she wont remember.

5th block She says "i do not know, because i do not remember" a lot within this story. She wants to forget all of the bad events within her life and when some one refers to one of those moments she says that phrase. She kept saying that and she started to beleive herself, but i think that one day she will have to face the fact that she does have bad events in her passed. I have tryed to forget certain things,but when the anaversary of that avent comes around i can't help but feel sad or mad or what ever else i might feel like. Its good to remember your past events good or bad so that you can see how you have changed.
 * //__Alec Housholder__//**