How to use "reminds" in a sentence

It is small, so small, and it reminds him of his prison cell back in The Joy

"But it reminds me of the war

"And you know what it reminds me of? It's the same damn feeling I had in Angela's office when that computer terminal started operating on its own

'If a thing reminds you of something else - well, it's probably the same type of thing.'

'It reminds me of the man who went round the village pretending to be the Gas Inspector