An Interview with the Elderly

Gillian Howard was only 7 when the Second World War started it was a chain of events that didnt just clash her childhood more oer many others. The observer got the chance to interrogate her as part of our sr.ly duration.I came into the warm living room for this c all(prenominal) into question and my surrounding be of ornaments and glass statues. This is because my grandmother, Gillian, is an antique collector, so to start this interview I nuzzle myself into the infamous black leather sofa put for the interview. My grandmother entered, I immediately stand up for this is how you treat the elder generation, with respect. I greet her and I sit back down pull in to question her.I firstly quest her to just say a few inte remaining points that are important. She says she was born 1932 so was only 7 when the war started Gillian lived in capital of the United Kingdom at the time. Gillian still lives in London to daytime and that is where we are like a shot. When the blitz started i n 1941 Gillian was evacuated from London and went on a set up to Bristol. After that brief summary I proceed to ask her of when she felt most distressful. Naturally it was when she was separated from her parents and evacuated.She was crying and a classify of soldiers came up to her and comforted her they were at the station too and were on the train to Bristol to go to the port to go onto a battleship. They sang to her the wartime songs all the route from London to Bristol she learnt them all. But thither is another event that really was sad and it just shows how the war tears families to shreds, she said. I ask what this event is she says It was of lean when my brother died in world war two, you see he was torpedoed by a German U-boat 4 people survived. He was genius of them and he was on a chunk of metal torn past form the ship.After 4 days without food in the scorch heat of Africa the U-Boat surfaced and left them there they took photographs and used them as propaganda face they were actually bully people for they had rescued 4 dying men. 3 days later my brother died and 1 day later the rest of the crew were rescued he was just mavin day to short. It is a story I feel heard many times forrader, but it still makes me feel awfully sorry for my grandmother and her family. I then(prenominal) ask what happened when she arrived at Bristol. She says the she and her other brother were to be taken to a embarkment school. But wasnt as easy as it seemed for it was an only boys boarding school.Gillian got up to much mischief in one event there was a sudden uproar of mice in the school, every single scholar had one and we hid them underneath the fold up old fashioned desks. In another event Gillian describes the useless French teacher. She explains in this episode of how idiotic the teacher was and how all the children decided to trick her. She recalls the event, You see the week in advance we had tricked another teacher by putting thin string all arou nd the corridor and it tripped her up. All the teachers were on red alert so before class I went outside the classroom of the French teacher she was crisscross homework in the room and I pretended to tie up all these pieces of string outside. So we went into the lesson that is our class and pretended to jump over the strings.So when the teacher left the classroom she was crawling over the floor, she intellection there was string. If we had cameras back then that would be the time to use it I ask her if she ever cut the bombing. She then says that they only stayed at Bristol for one day before they were whisked away to the countryside. But in that night she saw the bombing. She says In the night I was with my brother it was the most terrifying matter and all you could hear was the screeching of the bombs and huge explosions.I ask, When the war was over was there a huge sense of relief.When the war ended everybody was so cheerful I was in London on victory day but before this whol e experience I was 7 now I was 13 a whole chunk of my childhood was torn out, says Gillian. So were many other childrens childhood I think to myself.So after that I grew up in London and I met your grandad Theo, at the age of 22, Theo was 29. So many people got married materialisation in those days, says Gillian.Gillian and Theo now live in a large Victorian, tolerate in Chelsea London. I ask if they both go out much. I go out with our dog Bosie on a passing every day to keep him healthy, she explains.Bosie is the puppy born in august. He is very lively and is active so they go on a walk every day. Do you have any hobbies? I ask. She says that she collects antiques and has a very large collection of jewellery. Whenever we visit her she always shows my sisters her latest addition to the collection. At 76 Gillian still doesnt have the same acrobatic ability she used to have but is still very hit for her age. When we go to the park she will be joining in with the football.I when ce sum up this interview part of are immemorial season with the same message as other articles of the elderly season week. They are elderly people must have respect they have come from a completely different world compared to us and therefore needed to be treated like that. The elderly are not boring, slow, dull people as depicted in stereotypical pictures they are full of years of wisdom and can tell you lots of good stories. Dont fall for what those stereotypical pictures say THINK