Personal Narrative: My Way To A Cultural Event

On October 16th, I made my way to a cultural event. The event was called “Home, Memory, and Future”, when I heard the name of it I believed it was based on the beliefs of people in other words their religions or their culture. As I read the introduction I realized it was about Harlem, which is located only a couple stops from home. Then I wondered what kind of cultural events have happened in Harlem, instantly I thought of the word diversity. In New York, there are many people that come from different backgrounds, they come to comfort themselves with what they believe. The question shouldn’t be what how many cultures are there? The question is how is it that living in a place so diverse such a Harlem; does not discomfort others from their religion? The “Home, Memory, and Future” exhibition was …show more content…
The people all around were very happy and children were getting their face painted, I went with my daughter she was going to get her face painted as well, but everyone was making their way to the stage where story time was going to take place; “five minutes till story time”; said the lady as I went to the front and listen to the story. The story was about an anancy spider from Ghana, that was a trickster. The man telling the story made a statement about these “special” stories being important for Caribbean culture center to retell these stories that the enslaved African had brought along with them. As the story went on Anancy the spider was a character that like to get things for nothing, in other words a free loader, he had a friend tiger that was a very nice friend the one thing that made them close was that they both love to swim. One day Anancy wanted to go to a new place he had found to swim, tiger did not believe him Anancy then said that he will cook something because he was a better cook, tiger felt offended by Anancy