Talk:Faded Memories/@comment-24817115-20140602150950/@comment-1426372-20141215011527

Honestly, if you didn't understand it fully, then you understood it better than anyone who claims to "get it" totally. This is a story about the unknown, and more specifically about thing so alien that they're incomprehensible. The deers (from earlier in the story) and the tree are just ways that the adult mind interprets something so far outside of its realm of experience that it makes no sense. Very young children are able to accept but not understand what they see, and for anyone over that age (like Jessica), to be forced to understand the incomprehensible is mentally damaging.

What's in the journal is incomprehensible. The narrator destroys it because he can't bring himself to look at it.