‘My Lobotomy’

http://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey

In this class, we first listened to an audio work example named ‘My Lobotomy’. So, honestly, I didn’t know the meaning of ‘lobotomy’ at the beginning, because it is a medical word and I never heard of it before. But I could get the general content that a man who did the surgery years ago found that the surgery was not right, and he was very doubtful about the doctor. He went to interview some other patient, and wanted to know the facts about that surgery.

I really like this audio work. Although I couldn’t totally understand it, I could precisely feel the emotion of the whole audio work. I thought the first reason would be the background music. The beginning background music appeared with the interview of those patients and their families. The music was calm and a little bit sad, and they spoke in a narrative tone to describe the horrible procedure of the surgery. I could image the scene by listening to their words. I felt that it is the power of the audio work, that could invoke my imagination. The violin sound which connected the scenes also created the feeling of suspense.

Another reason is that this audio work kept to make me curious. I wondered why did Dully totally forget everything about the surgery, why did Dr. Freeman do this to his patient, and why these families members chose to let the patient do the surgery. I learnt that we couldn’t speak out all the information at the beginning. It could work better to give the cues step by step, which could get people’s attention along the development of the storyline.

In all, I just liked it. After listening to this one, I had more ideas about my groups final work. I am not the fan of this kind of audio story, but I found it interesting. 🙂