Hi, this is the seventh installment of my blog for my English Composition I class. For this assignment, I had to watch three videos and interpret the video-text performances, which I have listed below. I also had to write a rationale that responds to five questions.
My narrative allows me to travel into my brain because I remember thinking, how am I going to get my people, my car, and all my equipment to Memphis. On top of that there was the thought of, can I get the time off from work, and if I can’t what can I do to work around attendance policy at work, can my Girlfriend get the time off, will my parents be willing to go. Is this worth all the work involved to be able to go. Will my car and I be competitive in the race. Looking back on it now, there was courage on my part to want to travel that far away from home and to ask my family to put out a lot of money and time to do this. It wasn’t as hard for me to get the material things there, it was harder getting myself there. My narrative allows me to explore my heart from back then because the scene I composed is from a time when I just started really getting passionate about competing in drag racing, instead of watching. I can remember the anxious moments before I asked my Girlfriend and parents about going to Memphis. The anger that I experienced when I asked the Plant Manager, where I worked, for the time off and the argument that ensued. The excitement of being able to go and see how we stacked up, against racers from across the country. My narrative meets the nerve element by showing the lengths I had to go to, just to get time off from work to go participate in something that was a once in a lifetime event. The argument with the Plant Manager that normally I wouldn’t have had, I would’ve just went silently on to a different way of getting what I needed, but this time was different, and I knew I was going to have to stand up to him and fight a little harder for what I wanted. My narrative enables me to re-examine the power I have in my life’s story because at the time I felt unsure of myself and my ability to do what I had done many times before at a local level with people that I became friends with. To a national level where the world would see what I was capable of, and there were no friends there. I realize now that the technical part (my car) of what I was doing was fine it could compete with the others that were there, my confidence was there I was just unsure. To me what shapes our sense of identity is both, life events and the stories we tell ourselves about life events. You have to have the life events happen to be able to tell ourselves the stories.
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