Personal Narrative: My Interview With Miss Norma

My interview was with a woman named Miss Norma. She was born during WWI (1917) and will be 100 years old in February. It was interesting how I met, I was a cashier at Walmart when she came through my line. She saw my name tag and asked if I had ever been to the Shekinah festival in Amish country. I told her I had never been and that I wasn’t from Columbus. She then asked where I was from and when I told her New Albany Indiana luck might have it, she was born and raised in my home town and from that day on we have been friends.
Miss Norma had much to say in our interview and although her mind is pretty sharp she couldn’t remember everything pertaining to one event so she often moved to another event during the interview. In all of 30 minutes and 14 seconds Miss Norma had discussed; silent movies and her experience with her grandfather, she discussed the up rise in radio, and a …show more content…
She didn’t remember what it was like on the television only radio broadcast form of it. She told me about how popular it was in the late 20s on the radio and that the characters were black and were in the taxi business. She remembered that Her and her family would go over to her uncles and listen to the show with him before he passed away of cancer. This also could be compared to the 7c discussion of synchronous audience because her family watching and laughing together could be considered as an example of small group laughing together at the same thing, also known as synchronous audience. At the end of the conversation she spoke a little about radios and how one could get the materials and hand make it themselves. Which we also discussed in lecture 10a. Radios were common in homes by 1920s according to lecture as well as what we discussed in the interview she said most homes had either a floor model or one that they built on their own but most homes had one. She also told me that some of the