Mystory part2 family discourse

For my family discourse, I documented some happy sections in my childhood memories with my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my cousins, my uncle and aunt, etc. by making a video. Unlike most of others in the class who use static pictures as their narrative way, I feel like when I was doing this assignment, my meomries about my families are like a film, frame by frame reflecting in my mind. 30 frames per second, in movie making, it means 30 pictures connected in one second to express the moment. But for my memories, it is more than this number.I love using moving pictures to express thoughts, and a lot of times, I regret that I did not have camera to document those childhood moments, which once passed away, would never come back again.



"Something in the present environment triggers a memory (punctum), information from the past intrudes into the present, leading to a hammered thumb (p.76)". A lot of "past" things could remind people of past stories, like a song. For me, the song in the video belongs to my past stories. The background music I choose named "mom in my dream" (but it is funny that all my memories about it is related to my dad), it is an old folk song sang by an Inner Mongolia kid. My dad is a lover of Mongolia songs. In my childhood memory, he sang a lot of such songs, when we took a walk after dinner, when we had a picnic in parks, when we had a break during the morning execise. I could not hear him singing anymore for some reason, and this makes me always have some special feelings to those songs, because they are not just songs, they are symbols of some emotions to the past.



Ulmer discussed "homesickness" in his family discourse (p.76). He said "The homesick person is not so efficient. A symptom of homesickness is the cognitive failure known as absentmindedness". I had been living with my families in Dalian for all the time before I came here. You could not imagnine how strong the homesickness I had in the first semester. We had familiy party almost every weekend and festival in my grandparents' hourse.My uncle's family, my aunt's family, my family, and my grandparents, a dozen or so of family members getting together, they all are the components of my familiy memory.