Bat Mitzvah
Answers have been retrieved from an American lady whom I owe many thanks to for her time. Her daughter has answered about her bat mitzvah and whether taking part in this tradition provided her with aspirations of her own or pressure to conform. The results were of interest and provided insight into the tradition from a real perspective.
Alcoholism
The company also wants to show an example of someone not wanting to fill shoes so have taken information from my findings on alcoholics to create a narrative which will run through Shoes To Fill involving a story of an alcoholic mother. To do this in a realistic and unbiased way I took information from a variety of sources I found on alcoholism. I looked into Alcoholics Anonymous studying their 12 steps to recovery programme. I also looked into the organs that are affected the most when someone is an alcoholic to see the journey their body undertakes in becoming reliant on this substance and which bod parts shut down and begin to become unreliable like the mother herself in caring for her child.
Through my research I also found the national association for children of alcoholics – a person with a parent of any age can contact them for help. By doing this I aimed to provide the writers with a thorough background knowledge of the issue as well as looking more in depth into the service available for such people and looking at the reason why this would not be a good shoe to fill and how this may create alternative role models for children other than parents.
This provides us with a darker tale to ensure our performance has moments of darkness to show how filling someone’s shoes can be difficult or not an aspiration at all.