Soundblog Post 4

A Change of Plans:

Tim King, a soon to be president, became a teacher in hopes for it to further push his career plan of becoming president. He became friends with a student named Keith and they developed a close relationship. Keith's mother died later, and one thing led to another. Eventually, Tim became Keith's father. Now Tim runs a charter schooling organization to help "all the Keith's of the world" live a good life and be loved. Keith works in that organization and still considers Tim as family. This story as well as the one below it is from The Moth, however requires iTunes to listen to. It should be noted, however, that the story below this one can be viewed without iTunes. Five questions I might have asked to make this story work would be:

• Could you briefly explain your childhood and career plans?
• What stopped you from becoming president?
• Could you tell me about your relationship with Keith when you and Keith first met?
• Could you tell me about how you and Keith became family?
• Where is Keith now? How is he doing?

The six major points I could find from this story that help make the story as good as it is are: the part where Keith says "Why can't you be my dad?", because it was a very shocking question that is hard to answer; Tim's thoughts afterwords such as how this would ruin his plans of becoming the first black president of the US, because it gave some very good insight to Tim and who he was prior to adopting Keith; the point when Tim said "yes", because he only said that word, and it seemed that because it was one word, it described a very sharp turning point in his life (the entire story changes here); the part where he describes how Keith had to live like an adult and now was able to live like a kid again, and how Tim was living like a kid with a bank account, and now has to live like an adult; how Keith is now grown up, went to college, and became a teacher for the organization that Tim leads, which specializes in changing the lives of people like Keith; and finally the text message at the end of the story which read: "Our family is at the basketball game. Where are you? You should be here.". At the end of the story, Tim gets teary eyed because he reads the text again and the beginning of the text reads "Our family".

Beyond My Viewmaster Dream: