Memoirs of their pasts

 

All of these stories gave me an insight about descriptive details about their childhoods and specific emotions they were feeling throughout their lives. They all had a haunting past but overcame their struggles as they grew older. “Adventures in Depression” by Allie Brosh was a great descriptive cartoon, expressing how sad she was all the time. The characters are cutely drawn but meanwhile, are portraying the certain times in her life where she felt the darkest emotions.

In the memoir “My father out to sea” and the ted talk “How long does it take to become an American” by Jaed Coffin, the author mentions what it was like to have his dad leave at a young age and having to grow up with a single mother. The memoir talks about how his dad went “off to sea” and the small amount of memories he has of him. The ted talk focuses more on his mothers struggles with growing up in Thailand but how she eventually achieved the American dream. The mom left everything behind in her home country to come to America in hopes of giving her kids and herself a better life. She put herself through school while raising her kids as a single mother. It is so impressive to me how far she travelled just to come to America, and the sacrifices she made for herself to get to where she was.

My favorite video was “How to ruin everything” by George Watsky. I found it the most relatable out of all of them. The video is portraying a guy living out the same normal life everyday and is clearly getting bored of it and wants a change. This has been especially relatable to me ever since covid happened, and we were all sent into quarantine. I too had been feeling like I was living the same day over and over again and couldn't wait for lockdown to be over. I hated being trapped in the vicious cycle of waking up, going to school, then back to bed again and needed a change as well.