For this assignment I interviewed Laura Cheatwood. Before I could even look for an object, she handed me her necklace which she wears everyday. In fact, Laura admitted that if she doesn't wear it around her neck she keeps it in her pocket and she will turn around and go back to her apartment if she forgets it.
It is a simple brass pendant that hangs from a black leather chord. On one side is an intricate Celtic Star. On the other is a four branched tree with visible roots.
As she puts it, the star stands for protection, while the tree stands for growth. As such, she generally wears it with the star facing front and the facing herself. This signifies protection from external forces and internal growth. She does, however, sometimes wear it reversed.
The pendant was given to her in high school by an "ex-best friend for penance." Despite the negativity of the gift, she treasures it and would be very upset if she were to lose it.
For her is represents two different things. The first is that it is a link to her heritage and culture, being of Scots-Irish descent. The second is that it acts as a reminder to be careful of who she trusts.
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4 years ago
ery good stuff here, Stephen. I'm particularly interested in your decision to end with that specific sentence, too -- it leaves the "negativity of the gift" idea (which you mention in the next-to-last paragraph) casting a shadow over your entire text. I'm wondering if you might probe a bit more into that "negativity" in the next-to-last paragraph; perhaps you could have asked her a question or two to describe how/why/when she got over that negativity and came to the decision to continue wearing it (for the reasons you cite at the end).
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