Memoir Presentations

One of the memoir presentations that really caught a lot of attention was Mitch’s.  The Fab Five not only impacted the college basketball, but it changed the game forever.  It was unheard of to have five freshmen start on a college basketball team and go to the championship two years in a row.  “Never won a championship…but talked about for 20 years.”  Even though the Fab Five didn’t win a championship, they left such a memorizing sensation that was truly one of a kind.  People to this day still talk about how these five players together brought magic to the court.  The Fab Five also brought a new style to the game: high black socks, baggy shorts, and rap music.  “Because…they were original.”  The reason why the Fab Five is so remembered is because they founded the dress style in basketball that is still used today, and changed the music basketball is correlated with from rock to rap.  The Fab Five really changed the game because they were the famous outliers of their time that has impacted basketball forever.

Another memoir presentation the really caught a lot of attention was Madison’s.  Lucky, by Alice Sebold, displays the magnitude of being raped and the journey it takes to fully recover such an event.  Alice was raped in a dark tunnel that scarred her for life.  “Because it’s true…Because I was raped and now no one will want me.”  Rape is one of the hardest things to face, especially if one tries to pretend like it didn’t happen.  Until one can accept what happened, one live in denial of everything.  Acceptance is also the first step in a long journey to becoming one's true self again.  Not only does one have to fight through this tragedy mentally, but also socially.  “In comparison, they said, I was lucky.”  Lots of people told her that she was lucky that she didn’t die, and that she should be grateful about it.  How can someone be grateful about anything after getting raped?  This resembles how tough it is to recover from rape when everyone else is telling a victim to move on.  Lucky clearly describes an event that people would not understand the severity of unless one has experienced it for them self.