Aarti Chopra, aged 16, a high scholar going to
Brooklyn College Academy, my cousin, is wearing a plain white tee shirt, her
basketball team logo shorts “The Bobcats”, a dog tag, and hair tied back in a
ponytail. She dribbles her basketball as she is speaking. She doesn’t seem to
take the interview very seriously, and she’s roaming around in place on the
porch. She walks around but then when she’s talking about something, she stops
walking and her voice tone gets stronger and louder.
Don’t
Judge Monologue by Pooja Chopra
Um
Before I used to be mad conscious about what people
thought about me, how they think about me, how they talk about me and stuff
Like
When I was little
I was a
tomboy, and well
I still am (grins, and winks)
And all my,
Like I had best friends that were girls and boys
But mostly boys
And many people would say
“Oh she’s a thirsty hoe because she’s hangin’ out
with all the guys and she
Doesn’t like females
la la la la la”
I was mad conscious
Like I started being mad girly and shit
Like I would wear hoops and earings
And I wasn’t into that typa shit
But like I still wear hoops but I wasn’t into that
back then
Because like
I was being mad girly more then I was being myself
And
Like I started feeling mad uncomfortable
But then I realized that like
Its better to be yourself because its easier
You won’t be
Fake
And now its just like
I don’t give a shit what people think about me
because when I do me
I’m prosperous for myself and when I’m prosperous
for myself
The people around me
Will also be prosperous as well
And like what made me change that about myself is
that like
Yo its just mad fake yanno
Like
Like I was unhappy and shit
Why
Why should I care about what you think?
Are you me?
Do you know what I’ve been through?
Like
You know my name but you don’t know my story
And um
When I signed up for stuff like
Tumblr
And stuff
Well mostly tumblr
Like Facebook is so fake
Because like
I don’t understand the concept of you
Tiny ass teenagers
Well I’m still a teenager
But y’all addin’ people that you don’t like
Like
What is wrong witchu
Y’all not friends so why you addin each other..
Stupid hoes
And um
I just wanna say that Tumblr is good
Because like
You can express yourself in a
Like
Visual way
And people don’t judge you as much as they do on
Facebook
And I just think that
Uh
And I just think that
I don’t know
Judging people is stupid
Like if I see a girl
I won’t be like
Oh
“she’s ugly I won’t talk to her”
Like no
Shut up
When I first found out we had to do an interview I
knew just who to interview. My cousin! I think interviewing my cousin was a
very good experience because I’m very close to her and I found out more about
the way she thinks and how she feels about different things. At first I was
sort of nervous because I didn’t want my cousin to think that the questions
were really dorky or that she wouldn’t give me enough details for the interview
but she did. In the beginning of the interview I thought that the interview was
just going to be a boring old interview and I didn’t really care about it but
then as the interview went by I became my intrigued in what my cousin was
saying. I think some difficulties that I had was that I wanted to just start a conversation
with my cousin after each answer she had because I wanted to reply to that but
I just had to ask more questions so that kinda sucked. Something that went well
was that I was very focused in what my cousin was saying and she gave me very detailed
responses. Overall I think that the interview went very well and I feel very
good about interviewing my cousin.
I definitely learned a lot about my cousin. I think
that an overall general topic that my cousin discussed was people and who she
is as a person, what she thinks of other people, what she thinks is wrong and
right. For example in the interview she said that she thinks people who smoke
weed and get high is stupid because they can’t seem to find fun in anything
other than drugs. Also I learned about the people that she respects like her
old basketball coach because he was a fatherly figure. I learned that I
actually take up a lot of my cousin’s life and she really loves me because when
I asked her about favorite memories she talked about the sleepovers that me and
her had.
I think that this coming of age unit was actually
very fun because I learned more about people and I think that its very
interesting to hear different things from different points of view and what
people think about topics. I think that the book “Am I Blue” and reading it was
actually very interesting. I think that the book showed different perspectives.
In the book a young child is gay and he gets bullied and the book is from the
perspective of him and how he feels. In the end of the book, he feels much
stronger. I think that this is a very interesting aspect of coming of age. I
think this because in regular books you don’t really see a general change over
a specific issue, its just a big change in the story but in a coming of age
book you see a change in the character.
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