The Summary:
On Labor Day weekend in 1997 Holly Dunn's world got flipped upside down. Holy went on a date with her boyfriend Chris Maier. He took her on a romantic midnight stroll at the railroad tracts in Lexington, Kentucky. The two love birds was kissing under the stars when a strange man appeared to them with a ice pick in his hand. Chris offered him money but the man refused and and he picked up a rock and smashed it against Chris's head ,killing him instantly. The strange man raped Holly and then beat her repeatly with a board until she was unconscious. When Holly woke up she was in a persons yard naked. The police questioned her and come to find out this man had killed 14 people. She was luckey to be alive. She spend years rebuilding her life by talking to others about rape. Holly was still terrified when she heard the train. The sound of the train brought back flashbacks of being raped at the railroad tracks. She is now married and in a support group to help her with her tragedy.
Relation to the Chapter 6:
In Chapter 6 we read about different kinds of memory. Memory plays a important role in a person's life. Our body would not know how to function wihtout memory. Researchers believe that we have a t least three types of memories. Each type of memory is used differently. One of the memories used in "the Railroad Killer", is Episodic memory. This memory recalls specific events in your life that happend while you were present. A few years later Holly used her episodic memory to relate to others who had been victoms of rape by joining a Rape and Abuse hotline. Another memory that can be used could be Flash bulb memories because this reppresses the traumatic event in her life. Flash bulb memories are memories that are forgotten because of emotional experiences.
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Nice story of our lives; and yet its so very real. Memory can be pleasant in a lot of situations. But in situations like this, the recall of an episode brings back a whole lot of feelings and fear that we experienced at those episodes. It is as big a challenge to overcome the scare and the fear they bring as it was initially the episode itself.
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