As most people can agree, everyone loves food! They may love different types, styles, or backgrounds of food, but everyone has that food they can not resist. For some of us, its many foods we can't resist. But what I believe is that many of us actually enjoy being with one with our food. We like to take huge bites, mouthfuls, so we can barely chew, let alone swallow.The taste of the food just fills your entire mouth to complete satisfaction. But... what if that's not enough? What about those of us whom feel the need to just be surrounded in our food?...dive into it? swim around?
The first picture I chose was a little boy eating spaghetti.. or Atleast trying to. I'm not sure how much of the food is actually getting in his mouth. He seems to be enjoying himself, non the less. He is obviously eating the spaghetti more with his hands than the spoon he is holding, and making a complete mess not only on his high chair but all over his arms and face. He seems completely content with life.
The second picture is La Tomatina. It is a traditional tomato food fight in a semi small town in Spain. For this annual event, thousands of people come to this little town for this huge event. People of all ages dream of being able to go to this event some day. There must be some thrill in being covered in food. Maybe its the idea of taking part in the worlds largest food fight, or maybe its just the idea of being smothered in food. Because of American standards and culture, many people believe it is improper to be a messy eater and be covered in food. But who doesn't love it from time to time. From children just learning to eat, to grown adults sliding in tomatoes, who doesn't enjoy the thrill of being covered in their favorite food.
Good choices! La Tomatina sounds like a great possible source. Since it is such a huge and somewhat strange event, im sure there is a lot of culture and information to be looked into. I also think the little boy is a good possible primary source. I look forward to finding out which topic you choose.
ReplyDeleteOf the two sources you've provided, I think La Tomatina would work slightly better for this assignment, but I'm concerned about what you'd have to do in order to make it work.
ReplyDeleteBasically, this assignment asks you to examine the details of a text, and then explain what they mean. I'm not sure how much you would have to say about the kid eating messily, or how you would relate it to a larger food theme, although that may be a failure of imagination on my part.
It is very possible to use a festival as your text, but it does require a different set of analytical tools than the ones we will be developing in class. You'd ideally want to do fieldwork at the festival, but I know that's unrealistic for a freshman English course! Instead, you could find a range of videos and testimonies to get a sense of it. If you're really interested in pursuing it, we can talk about it and I can lend you a great book by Dorry Noyes, in which she does an analysis of a Catalan festival. It would be a ton of extra work, though.
That said, my feeling is that you might want to continue looking. You can e-mail me with other sources you find, or post them onto your blog.
Excellent on the food fighting! absolutely love it. Cant wait to see which one you choose and how your paper develops.
ReplyDeleteI think the second one would be best. It seems to me that you want to do something that involves people wearing their food, which is interesting and strange but I like it. So I think the second one best fits the analysis concept.
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