Chris Roppolo
Professor Santos
ENGL 102-042
23 February 2018
ENGL 102-042
23 February 2018
This week in class, we read chapters from
the book Eating the Landscape by
Enrique Salmon, and while reading chapter 4 I came across a quote that really
stuck with me. That quote on page 60 was “It’s incredible, but no matter our
age, we still enjoy a good story. I think we share a primal urge to share
memories as a way to mingle and reaffirm our suspicions and observations about
what we know and suspect about the world and each other. Stories help human
communities to restore and build upon our collective memory and library of knowledge.
It is a continuum of our human legacy.”
We
all love hearing stories and love sharing our own. Its how us as a human race
can really get to know each other and get to know each other’s past. It is our “primal
urge” to hear stories that really got me to hear about my Nana and Nonno’s
pasts in the home country. How my Nonno (grandfather in Italian) watched as
fighter planes flew over head at his home in Sicily when he was a young boy in
the late 40’s or how my Nana raised some livestock in her hometown of Naples,
Italy. One story that has made the most impact on me is when my Nonno came into
this country as a teenager at the age of 16 and when the boat made a stop, he
got out to look around, as many did, and the boat left without him, leaving him
behind. Nonno later found out that the ship he was supposed to be on sunk,
killing many of its passengers. If he made the boat, he wouldn’t have met my Nana
and he may have been one of the casualties of the sunken ship, which would have
resulted in me never existing.
I love the personal story connection. I feel that it shows how one idea can impact millions of lives. If people chose to teach about preserving our communities, our world would be completely different. Remember to check formatting before submitting and publishing as changing from Word to Blogger can move things around. Overall, I feel that the content is good.
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