Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The person I will more then likely choose to interview will be my father. He spent the majority of his life moving around in a close family in the military, and ended up raising one of his own. He would have a better insight on the topic of my blog then I will, he is a lot older then me and has gone through a lot more then I have. I will probably end up asking some broad questions leading into more narrow ones, like what was it like growing up in a military family? Those types of questions usually lead to broad answers so the assigned reading stated, so the follow ups should be pretty good. He grew up in the Philippines and Japan because of where my grandfather was stationed, and had quite a few unique situations that I never had to encounter in my journey to growing up. Some follow up questions might be asking how this effected the way he viewed the world he grew up in. My father is a very unbiased man is some respects, but in others he is completely and totally biased, so the interview should be interesting.

Monday, September 10, 2012

In "The Library Card" a black man in the south seaks to understand his world and the people who live in it by reading books from, well, the library. During the time it was a great risk for him to be reading, but he perserviered and saw it through to the end. In my own life I hve had to go through hard times to get to the final goal, be it a chance to see my dad or a day off from the duties he left behind. The man in the stories reward was knowledge and a deaper understanding of the world around him, but mine was just a day to myself.