What would you do to fit in? What would you do if someone taxed your favorite food? As entertainment and history have shown, I would eat fried worms and throw a party! Not literally, of course the worms are not real, and the party was not exactly... a party.
For my Primary Source Analysis I have selected two works. First is Bob Dolman's movie, "How to Eat Fried Worms". I chose this work not only because it is a good movie, but because it is strange, interesting, revealing, and most of all about food! I'm using it because the movie ties food into the main point of the story (an elementary school boy tries to fit it and ends up making a bet to eat 10 fried worms). First, I see this movie as strange because it is worms! Second, I feel like this movie does revolve around food and ends with a good moral. Overall, this movie really does exemplify the importance of food in our societies.
For my second choice, I have chosen an article, which includes a first hand account, of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. I chose this because as most of us know, The Boston Tea Party is a big part of history they is all about revolution and of course, food! Although by this time in my life, I do not find the party strange, but certainly interesting and revealing. When I think of the party, I ask myself, Why did they do it? and Why tea? Well, interestingly enough, I found how important tea was in that era, and in the present. I feel the gravitude of this event, and the fact that it was over tea, will make this work a good source to analyse.
I like the prompt about fried worms. although I myself have never seen the movie, I have heard good things about it from my friends and think your paper would have the possibility to go multiple different ways.
ReplyDeleteLooking at your two primary sources, I feel that either of them would be fine. That said, you would probably have an easier job with the trailer for How to Eat Fried Worms, as it lends itself more obviously to the sort of analysis that this project requires you to do. The other primary source is fascinating, but might be better for a history project.
ReplyDeleteI also think How to Eat Fried Worms will give you a lot of interesting issues to discuss, like how certain foods are acceptable/unacceptable or palatable/unpalatable to different cultures, or how people use food to mark out social relationships such as friendship or dominance or whatever.
I have to agree with both of these posts. I think that both could work, but i definitely think How To Eat Fried Worms would be a better choice because there is a lot that you can do with it, especially since this is all dealing with kids and childhood.
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