Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco

In Twenty-three Snapshots of San Francisco, the perspective of the story is very disjointed. This perspective is created by the way that the story is told. The narrator tells the story through the pictures he has taken during the attack by the zombies. With each picture the audience gains a little more information about what is happening in the narrator's world. The disjointed feel of the story creates tension because the reader never really knows what is going on. Instead, they are forced to guess at what is happening. The narrator talks of life as a fragment, because our memories are fragments. Telling the story through fragments emphasizes this point. This story could also be related to We Can Remember it for You Wholesale. One of the themes of that story is the idea of what make you you. Is it your memories or is it something much deeper that cannot be taken away? In the Snapshots story the author seems to be saying that the memories that we have are what make us who were are, even if those memories are only fragments.