Cloistered Nun Analysis

I always knew my neighbor Margaret was an interesting character, she lives in a beautiful house that she built with her husband. She has moved around the country a lot, and always has interesting accounts and stories to tell. When deciding on who to interview, she seemed like a perfect candidate, a politically savvy elderly lady who has an particularly unique and interesting view on things. Originally I was going to base my interview around the Vietnam war era, so around the sixties. I was going to ask questions that were based around experiences of protesting the war, the medias portrayal of what was going on, and what her thoughts were about the issue. When I was setting up the interview, she mentioned something that I was much more interested in. She mentioned that she was a cloistered nun throughout the sixties, meaning she was enclosed into a catholic monastery. Meaning she was not given any information of the outside world for eight years, from 1962-1970. My topic quickly became, what was it like being a cloistered nun during the …show more content…
Memories of an individual, though fragile, are worth a lot. Over time memories change and fade, this is proven, but certain things are unforgettable. General schedules of what happened on an everyday basis is a pretty reliable memory, special events are also hard to forget. These things are what is important in our lives, thus this is why we remember them. Orally passing these memories from one to another is very valuable because it gives the listener a sense of what was happening in this persons life, It puts the listener in the shoes of the teller. It is a very personal interchange of words, like a story, which makes you feel, and understand the account of somebody who lived and saw the discussed events. If you have background knowledge of the time, and you know the facts, you can tie in the account of the person to what you know about the time they are speaking