Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Cynthia Carr Reading
Cynthia Carr's reading on Monday night was all right. It wasn't too exciting and her stories weren't very attention-grabbing. An old guy behind us was snoring loudly and I nodded off for a second, too. But, her investigative journalism techniques were interesting and it was pretty cool how she was able to (sometimes quite difficultly) find out things about what exactly happened at the Meriam lynching. I’m sure it was probably pretty intimidating for an old lady to interview certain men on such a touchy subject, but it seemed like she got most of the info she was looking for. A lot of what Carr recovered, she related to herself and the white guilt that she felt for having a grandfather in the KKK. Just as O’Kane uses her parents in her story to come to terms with her own lifestyle, Carr uses the Meriam Lynching to delve into her issues of having a family member in the KKK. It seems that in personal narrative it’s important to use other events as a window to look at yourself.
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I have to agree with your thoughts on the dryness of her lecture. I too was near the old man nodding off and found that she wasn't very engaging. I also thought it was strange when she got very emotional, she seemed kind of detached from the material until then. Her investigative techniques were fairly impressive and it was a very touchy subject. I was also impressed by her ability to extract information; these didn't seem like the types of people who would be excited to talk about these subjects.
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