Welcome back friends, today's blog is going to be piggybacking off Creating and Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism. I'll be looking back into that memory and questioning my decisions and actions. Asking "if I did this instead, how would this change the outcome?" This type of thinking and writing style is know as Counterfactual. For more information about this subject, I encourage you to listen to Rewinding & Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Heads (NPR Hidden Brain Episode). Now if you're more of a reader than a listener I recommend reading Mark Twain's Two Views of the River. And now with out further a due, let's rewind.
Reflecting on my actions and decisions from that night, I believe I made the right choices. But what would've happened if I didn't march down those stairs and break up the fight? I can only imagine the level of violence escalating to the point of someone being hospitalized or even killed. Now I know some people may think I'm exaggerating, but it's happened before. When I was younger and helpless a similar fight broke out and my mother was sent to the emergency room. It would be very difficult for me to do a counterfactual scene for I had two choices; 1- was to go down and break up the fight, 2- would be to not go down stairs and just ignore everything. So if I were to do the opposite of what I've already done It would all have to come from my imagination and from either my mother's or my step father's perspective.
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Sabatino
3/2/2020 01:32:50 pm
Glad to see content here. At our conference, let’s discuss this post as well as your other writing for this course. Here, I will say the introduction provides necessary context for the counterfactual, and I see potential in this material for the memoir.
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