Old purpose:
This essay is to point out that in the information age, face to the information-inflation the abilities of memorize and forgetting things, people needs to have the ability of resistance for it, and be able to filtrate out what are important and erasure others. and forgetting is inevitably, we do not have to always feel shame because of forgetting.

New purpose:
In the information age, people needs to possess the ability of resistance for the information overload, and be able to filtrate out memory are important. Also found the equilibrium point between shame and forgetting, and be aware of that forgetting is inevitably and do not have to always feel shame because of forgetting.

Introduction:
The essay “Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age” was written by Charles Baxter. This is the essay for the audience who faces to information-inflation and have a particular space for memory. Baxter uses rhetorical strategies such as style, diction, and knowledge ability to enlighten the audiences about how people remember, what people remember, and why people remember or forget in the days of memory can both apply to computer and own minds. The purpose for this essay is to point out that in the information age, people needs to possess the ability of resistance for the information overload, and be able to filtrate out memory are important. Also found the equilibrium point between shame and forgetting, and be aware of that forgetting is inevitably and do not have to always feel shame because of forgetting. Baxter quotes the words from Nell Postman at the very beginning of this essay to support his standpoint. “We have transformed information into a form of garbage” (p.141) the information here implied memory, and the “form of garbage” is a metaphor for forgetting. At the same time implied that erasure is inevitably.