Reality TV

In Turkey, for a certain period, we used to have reality programs on TV. Lots of people really watch them. Unfortunately, I was one of them. I didn’t think about the ‘thing’, that pushed me to watch them, until now. I think that I wanted to isolate myself from the fasads, from the masks, from the pretendeces. So, with the will of tasting some reality, these types of TV programs were my places to escape. I really started to meet with these people, who were locked in a house to compete with the others. I started to find our similarities, and started to identify myself with them, since the real life was not real enough and we were just pretending. Also I was sick of seeing the make-ups instead of seeing people in their pajamas naturally.

Enormous Radio

The need of being addicted to something effects sometimes the lives of the people in a bad way. In the daily world, all of us are under the control of media. The first thing we do when we come to home is to turn on the TV or radio. It is not just to learn some informations about the important events occurring all around the world, it is also because of our curiosity about the lives of others. Irene uses the radio to get some information about their neighbours, when she finds out that radio is broadcasting the voices of her neighbours. She gets curious and becoms addicted to it, because she doesn’t not hear just their voices, she hears “demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair”. After the repairman comes and fixes the radio, she and her husband starts to argue. When they lost the connection between the media, the thing they are addicted to, they also start to live like the others. When we get rid of the radio, we left with the ‘reality’.

Family G.

Daddy is the ‘hunter’, mummy is the ‘gatherer’. Throughout the human history, the roles of the members of the family don’t change very rapidly. It still has some similarities and in our family structures, even today, the father has the role of doing the hard works to be able to nurture his children, and the mother is the one who ‘gather the life’ of her children. While she is carrying her baby, she is preparing a future for her baby. This might be considered as that the father is the authority of the family, since he is the one to connect the family to the outside world. In my family, I can’t really say that my father is the only and the exact authority, although he is a very strong character, because he doesn’t give the decisions about all of us without asking to or taking advices from my mother. Also when they are planning to do something for the family, like a trip or something else, they are coming to me and my brother and telling about their plan. Although me and my brother, we both don’t seem like we have the right for objection, we, who are the fruits of the marriage and love, are the ones, whom they are giving their decisions according to.

Family&Marriage – What are we fighting for?

What is the role of the family in society? How important is the role that family has in society in your opinion? 

 After reading the article by Ralph Wedgwood, I started to think in a different way about the institution of marriage. I had the idea that people, who want to live together until the end of their lives, choose the way to marry. Maybe due to my nation, I was seeing marriage as an obligation to live together. In our society, in Turkey, to live together without marriage is not an acceptable process. In our country, people do not choose to marry with the people they love, to share the properties. It is not a mutual living agreement, it is not a document to show to society that “we are dividing everything into two, it is why we married”. In Turkey, it is just to get the permission of society to live together. This is why I saw the obligatory side of the marriage different than the writer. However, in an other way, I agree with him. If we consider other countries, where to live together without marriage is acceptable, it is true to say that people are choosing marriage not because it is an obligation, they are choosing it for the benefits of the legal side of it. Since it is to show that our marriage is a long-term marriage, it makes their marriage to gain good reputation from the society.

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