Katie H.
Mrs. Zurkowski
English 9 Greens
14 September 2010
Book: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Topic: Amnesia
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Amnesia
The main issue in the book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin was amnesia, and how it can affect someone’s life. The main character became an amnesiac when she fell down the steps of her school. Amnesia is when you lose your memory and sometimes your memory comes back and sometimes it doesn’t. Normally with amnesia, these memory losses happen when you’re most likely over fifty. Amnesia is not very common, there were only 5.2 incidences out of a 100,000 population based on data from Minnesota. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1160964-overview. The main character in the book showed symptoms of a type of amnesia called anterograde amnesia which is things that happened recently in their life. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/9673.php Knowing this information could be important in case one of my grandparents have memory loss in the future.
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