The two passages, passage one being an excerpt from Maurice Gees book "Going West" and passage two a poem "On the Problem of Remembering your Face" both deal with the subject of memory. The theme of "On the problem of remembering your Face" is that to recall what we want to we must look "from the corner of the eye" not directly at the memory or it will "disintegrate into mocking ripples." Gee's theme is that to truly remember we must be "inside" the memory. Gee comments on our attempts to alter our memories to make ourselves look better, and how this only destroys the memory. According to Gee the only way to truly see and accept your memories is through tenderness.

Both passages have differing points of view and a differing attitude to the audience. In Gee's passage Gee is addressing the audience. He is speaking in...