LECTURE REVIEW
This week's lecture consisted of a lot of video about personal narratives. What I found the most interesting aspect of personal stories is that some are creature of habit and the people that surround us during our public and intimate moments are the ones that really observe the pure nature of human kind. In Tony Mendoza's memorabilia of his late father called My Father's Lunch really showed how we as people enjoy repetition and are sometimes afraid of the unknown. His father ordered lunch habitually, almost everyday, for twenty five years from the same fast food restaurant. Not only did he order from the same place, but ordered the same exact food including chicken tenders, 18 mini onion rings, small french fries, two honey sauces, and a diet coke (size depending on the season) and since he was so familiar with the menu he could even talk about the costs changes over time. It is so true how much of a routine all of us get into at one point or another, even when we are younger we have all experienced similar experiences. Sally Mann the famous photographer for her black-and-white photographs of her children expressed the familiarity of childhood and motherhood. Although she was criticized for her photographs they expressed many situations we all experience at sometime in our life. Personal narratives may definitely differ from person to person, but in some way we are probably more alike than we would expect.
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