AFI Trip and Response

I really enjoyed going to AFI this past Tuesday.  I thought it was a lot of fun and totally different then what I initially expected.  In relation to the play and essay it was pretty cool.  Of course it the field trip made it come alive in a way, and I think it definitely showed how close to the truth both texts portray such an issue.  An example of this would be how in the play, most the characters have something quirky that they “have” such as Norman and his keys.  A person I talked to at AFI had boxes, that’s what he worked on and he was proud of it.  Just made me realize how simple they can think but though also as well it is not like they are incapable of having a conversation.  In one sense, I think that reading these texts before hand gave us something to expect when we went on our visit, though I think experience was the only true way of figuring this out.  A way that this helped me better relate to the essay by Professor Fetke was just seeing that these are real people and when given the chance they can do something that we deem “normal” in society.  Sure its low class and something no one else wants to do but for them it’s the world and I feel we should have no less respect for them now than anyone else.  The last thing we sorta discussed in class was the disabled in relation to our idea of the Image of God.  At first one struggles with the idea that, wow, us and them are equal just because I feel our culture has degraded and abused them so much.  I can definitely see more clearly that everyone of them is as described in the article, specially marked, and that their lives, often times, is more humble then ours ever could be.