Child interview
For this paper, I chose to interview a family that I have known for a few years. We do not know each other well: we are only acquaintences. There are four members of their family. The father's name is Ed, the mother's name is Sue and their two sons are Brian and Bobby. I met them a few years ago because my mom use to watch brian and bobby all the time. My little sister alisen was pretty good friends with bobby and Brian cause when they would come over they would play together. Brian and bobby spend the night sometimes when their parents would go out, and I have gotten to know his family a little by sometimes going out to eat with my mom and them here and there. And since Ed is black and Sue is white, I thought it would be interesting to interview them. They said that they would be happy to give me an interview anytime. So when I came home last weekend, I gave them a call and they told me to come on over. I started by interviewing the parents and then I interviewed the two children seperately. Ed Sanders was born in Akron, Oh. I asked him about his life as a child and he told me that it was pretty good for a black kid back then. He grew up with two brothers and both parents. He also
After I gathered all of the family information, I then interviewed each of the kids seperately. The first kid I interviewed was the older Brian. Brian is 13 and is now in the eighth grade. He said that his favorite things to do are to go to parties, dance, "pimp on women", and play sports. He said that he has a lot of friends and is considered pretty popular in Junior High School. I asked him what he meant by "pimping" on women and he said that it was basically just flirting with all the cute girls. I then asked him what he would do with a million dollars. He said that he would keep ten thousand of it to buy whatever he wants and then he would let his parents decide what to do with the rest. When I asked him what makes him afraid he said just mainly snakes. His best memory was scoring a touchdown to win a football game and his worst memory was when his dog died. When I asked him if he preferred to stay home or go to said that he did not face as much racial prejudice as one would think. He grew up with a lot of white friends and he eventually married a white girl, his wife Sue. They said that they have had a pretty good marriage with exception to a few problems as all marriages have. They both said that they have faced some racial problems because of their mixed marriage but nothing they could not handle. They are very close to both Ed and Sue's parents. The kids love their grandparents and love to go to their houses. They are not as close to their aunts, uncles, and cousins partly because some of them live to far away. But they still get to see them about four to five times a year on holidays and other family gatherings. There are no major problems in the family, just the normal family feuds that any normal family goes through. school he said that he would rather go to school. He said that he hates the schoolwork but he would miss his friends and the sports too much. His main goal in life is to get really big and strong and play in the NFL someday. But if that doesn't happen he would want to be an architect and be really rich. asked whether he would rather stay home or go to school he said that he would rather stay home because school "just isn't fun". Right now, Bobby's main goal in life is to grow up and get rich. After I asked him all of these
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Approximate Word count = 1549
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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