This podcast dives into the youthful world of childhood summer camps and the great experiences that come along with every attendance. This program captivates the different emotions, practices, and events that are all a part of summer camp. Also, it sets out to try and grasp the idea of how people who don't go to summer camp just don't understand the fun and amazement involved. The speaker tries to explain such feats by saying how children "feel as if they are part of a team" while in summer camp, as if they always have to be collaborating and working together in order to accomplish tasks and "survive" in the camp world.
In one of the segments, "This American Life" tries its hardest to explain the excitement and rush involved with the telling and receiving of new and old camp ghost stories. Every camp seems to have its own tradational tale, one as being described as a legend of a giant "Turtle Man" that creeps out of the water to claim its next victim. Also, more commonly known ghost stories are present in all summer camps, such as the story of "Bloody Mary." We get to hear the camp children lock themselves in the dark bathroom to try and see "Bloody Mary" in the mirror, demonstrating how gullable some of these children may be when living together for weeks in such an isolated land.
I listened to Notes on Camp as well and I really liked how you described the kids gullability! It was hilarious when the trick didn't work and all of a sudden they believed themselves that they felt a baby. Their desire for the story to be true described their gullible personalities.
ReplyDeleteI also listen to Notes on Camp and thought some of the same things as you. I especially liked the bloody mary part of the podcast.
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