What does it mean to be human?

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by melissa lima nunes1 view·Updated Feb 3, 2022
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  1. Hello Today we're gonna be talking about what is meant to be human
  2. being.
  3. Human means going through experiences and learning
  4. the most you can from each experience.
  5. Some would be life changing and change the way you perceive the world
  6. and how you see people.
  7. And we're gonna have two examples for that today,
  8. the china coin book and so shepherd
  9. which is the episode of a podcast.
  10. We're gonna start with the china coins
  11. leah the main character
  12. Yes,
  13. disconnected from her mother. They are not close at all
  14. and she also doesn't have a clear sense of belonging but she just
  15. doesn't know it yet.
  16. But she goes through a life changing experience
  17. now on switched at birth. The episode of the podcast,
  18. two babies were switched
  19. at birth
  20. And they found out about over 40 years after that happened
  21. and now they have to learn how to
  22. deal with the consequences and reconnect with their families
  23. on the china coin book
  24. leah
  25. has its development
  26. at the beginning,
  27. she starts thinking badly of her mother and
  28. she's very frustrated that she's going to china.
  29. So
  30. she refers to her mom as an evil aunt
  31. that flies on a broom.
  32. That sentence complains imagery
  33. and that imagery makes us think of a witch
  34. immediately because it's talking about flying on the broom
  35. and
  36. usually which is aren't seen as good mystical creatures,
  37. not what they're seeing as bad and evil.
  38. So
  39. that's what leah meant and when she said
  40. that we can instantly tell how she's feeling,
  41. she's feeling upset, she's angry, she's frustrated
  42. because
  43. she's referring to her mom like that.
  44. So she wouldn't do that if she wasn't if she was happy, right?
  45. Although after a while
  46. leah starts to understand her mother's perspective and point of view
  47. and they start getting closer as well.
  48. So
  49. leah
  50. gets closer to her mom and develops empathy towards john
  51. allowing them to build a healthy relationship.
  52. So the cultural shock
  53. and
  54. the fact that she was
  55. there with her mother and they only had each other
  56. also made leah realize
  57. that
  58. she had to eventually
  59. deal with her problems and find a way
  60. to be good with her mother. Finally
  61. on switched at birth
  62. Sue and Martha
  63. got switched when they found out over
  64. 2040 years later
  65. they try to reconnect
  66. with members and their families, their biological families.
  67. But so I always had difficulties reconnecting and
  68. being open to new people because she's a very shy person.
  69. So it just wasn't very, very easy for her.
  70. Unlike with Martha, Martha, she was a popular girl in high school
  71. and she was very outgoing.
  72. So when she saw her brother
  73. for one of the first times for the first time
  74. they connected really quickly
  75. and also the life experiences
  76. affected that as well.
  77. Martha was an outgoing public girl that lived in a conservative household,
  78. conservative household
  79. at house, nobody would understand her, but at school
  80. people would like her talk to her
  81. so
  82. she could relate to people at school,
  83. unlike su
  84. so she couldn't relate to anyone at home or at school because she was very shy
  85. and she lived
  86. with the Millers
  87. and
  88. they're all very outgoing
  89. and
  90. they talk a lot
  91. and she was more quiet and religious.
  92. Like her biological parents.
  93. Another thing that affects your life
  94. is the environment you live in
  95. leah.
  96. Couldn't understand her mother's spain
  97. when she lived in Australia
  98. she was too distant
  99. but once she moved
  100. to china
  101. she understood exactly what her mom went through.
  102. And the same with Sue and Martha.
  103. They couldn't
  104. actually reconnect fully with their biological families
  105. because
  106. the environment they grew up in their personality and how they work.
  107. It was just everything so different. They never felt like they belong anywhere
  108. and now they feel like they they had to reconnect
  109. with they
  110. biological family.
  111. So it's very hard for them. So the environment also affect your experiences in life.
  112. So your relationships and the environment you grow up in.
  113. It's very important because it shapes who you are and
  114. how you see the word and react to problems and situations
  115. in leah's case it was easier to change because
  116. she was young and moved to different countries.
  117. She suffered from the cultural shock and her instinct advising her.
  118. But with the Millers and Mcdonald's
  119. everyone was older and had a life of their own
  120. the experiences you leave and the people you associate with
  121. will affect how you see the world and react to things