The Memory of the World - Group Blog

So our group reported and discussed Italo Calvino's "The Memory of the World" with the theme, Post Apocalyptic. 

Group Members:

Neoben Rivera

Junico Potestad

Jasmine Arceo

Paul Jan Rodelas

Catherine Abdon

The text was indeed different from the stories we had been discussing in class; first, the way it was told - first person point of view, second, that it has a couple of themes that we can choose from.


The Memory of the World - The story goes of how this organization is trying to collect information from people and preserving them incase the end of the world comes. It discussed the importance of information and technology, the existence of another life form in other galaxies and planets, and also it tackles on the possibility of the end of the world. The story has a bit of twist in the end which made it more of a personal type of story.


For the movies, we chose "The 6th Day" and "The Book of Eli"; summaries of the movie can be found here:

The 6th Day Summary Book of Eli Summary

The Book of Eli - a post apocalyptic film which helped us illustrate how to gather the memory of the world - how they were able to collect information (books, resources, and everything about human life) and being able to preserve them after the said apocalypse.


The 6th Day - a scifi film about cloning and it shows how they collect a person's memory and storing them in a small disc (which is one of the goals of the organization in the text - memory of the world)


Presentation used in class can be found and downloaded here:HERE

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