What Charles Baxter trying to say in his essay is about the abilities of memorize and forgetting things, and what should we do to deal they in the information ages. The author divided the essay into five parts, at first sight, those five parts are not relatived to each other, but in fact they are all about memory and forgetting. and have close connection with the title.
The essay begin with the story about the author's brother, this story has a sense of reality to the author, and induce he began to think about --"shame and forgetting in the information ages", it is the reason that why the author put it at the very beginning.The second part is like a connecting link between the preceding and the following. The author also mentioned about different types of memory, relation between information and experience...The last part suggested that maybe erasure is necessary. Sometimes people feel shame when they forget something, which they suppose to remember. Sometimes people feel comfy beause they forget some trauma form past. Nowadays,the technology and computer are improving so fast, we can get information very easyly , but it did not help people's memories. there are to much information and include many are worthless. So people need to pick those important informatins.
