The Lamplighter

I feel as though the video was quite evident of the changing times the world has gone through when it come to children and continues still till this day. I fell that the interview between Amy and Anna establishes the type of view that today's children have in the world, and how today's children are predicated on being their own person and doing what makes them feel good while in the 19Th century children were supposed to follow a strict regimen and grow into the mold that adult authority created for them. Anna as sweet as she is compares drastically different from Gerty. Both girls are struggling to find balance in their life and both girls deal with how to find that balance in a much different way. Anna finds balance by doing various yoga positions and its calms her to the point of balance. On the other hand Gerty finds balance by getting in touch with her violent emotional side which we see twice when she throws the wooden spoon and strikes Nan Grant and when she trows the stone at the widow and shatters it. I also feel as though today's girls are treated and perceived in today's society is vastly different from Gerty's time period. In the interview Anna says she does yoga to find balance and Anna says "You want people to like you for who you are" which is what people see of girls today as being their own person and being that contemporary girl that everyone finds pretty and sweet in today's society. While in Gerty's time period girls were viewed as young women in training and supposed to become well mannered and domesticated when they grew up.

If Gerty would have appeared on Amy Pholer's TV show there would have been a different kind of show and the questions might have been answered a little differently. For one when asked about school Gerty said she would hate it because of what those girls called Uncle True. When asked what qualities make a good teacher Gerty would have responded by saying what makes a good teacher is someone who is just nice with her and willing just to teach her, because she had never been taught anything until being taught how to be a housekeeper by Mrs.Sullivan. When asked the question what would you would tell people who say they cant do something, I believe Gerty would answer by saying they cant do it and just to give up. I think she would say this because of how she refers to her self as always being ugly and was always told that she was a bad child. As for the question on what advice she would give to girls I feel as though she would have responded by saying that all girls should find someone who will love them and be nice to them. Because we see how drastically Gerty has changed from a sad lonely little girl to a warm hearted loving child.