Oral History: An Insight into My Grandmother's Life

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For my oral history project, I chose to interview my grandmother. My grandmother name is Rachel and we had our interview in my apartment at the kitchen table. The atmosphere was relaxed and quite since my roommates were out of our apartment at the time. I felt nervous before interviewing my grandmother because we do not get to talk to each other or see each other regularly since she normally lives in California, but she now is currently visiting my parents. I could sense a little bit of nervousness from her as well since I do not get the opportunity a talk regularly with her. Coming into this interview she did not know how much or how little information of her life she should tell me. I reminded her that she could she could talk as much or as little about her past within the hour timeframe. As a starting point, I began asking the questions from the handout that was given to us in class and our conversion built off those questions. …show more content…

The life course perspective idea of emphasizing the diversity of life journeys and experiences influences individual health; this can relate to how my grandmother dealt with the experiences of her childhood and teenage years went on to shape the person she is today. On a related note, I have already started to see the connection of how the younger personality of my grandmother mirrors her current personality as and older adult. The overall task of interviewing an individual above the age of 65 showed me that there is a major gap between our two generations. Since there is this gap, it was important to focus on oral history to present the facts of what occurred in the past. Oral history is a reminiscence related activity that allows for the recollection of past historical events which involves an open discussion between the different

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