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Thursday, November 3, 2011

This American Life - BREAK UP

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/339/break-up

I listened to “Break up” of This American Life. The title itself attracted me because break up is a very common topic, and it happens to a lot of people, so I was wondering, how could they make it interesting? I like how the speaker who went through a break up showed her emotions; audiences can hear her cry, and even the pauses help us distinguish her emotions and feelings. Also, when she was talking about how she has never gone back to places where she and her boyfriend had been, it seems like the speaker and the host are actually there at the place, which dragged me in. After this story, a narrator was telling a different break up story. This is very different, because it is obvious that she is not the one who went through the break up. Then, songs related to the story was played while the story was told, and there is a strong connection between the story and the song because she was talking about how she felt listening to sad songs after breaking up.

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