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My name is Skyler Siles. I am 19 and I am from Lewis Center, Ohio where I graduated from Olentangy Orange. I am currently a freshman majoring in Biology and planning to go into the Air Force National Guard this summer. I currently work as a lifeguard at the Powell YMCA and one fun fact about me is that I played Football and Soccer in high school and I also swam during the winter season. I have lived around Columbus my whole life so I was born and raised to be a Buckeye and cant wait to get to main campus next year.
What really struck me as most interesting is the way Maury describes the differences between and hobo and a bum. How the hobo is a "step above" the bum. How the hobo is looking to work for their food, shelter, or clothing while the bum is looking for handouts, "looking for something for nothing". I also thought it was cool how when he first left home when he was 13, they thought him to stick with hobos because hobos will help and protect you. For example, to always carry a few pebbles in your pocket so when you get to a camp to grab one and to throw it on the ground. This would indicate that he is part of the hobo society/ community and the hobos would see that pebble on the ground and take him in and let him join in on their meal and ect.
For my research, I choose to watch the Vice segment called "The Death of the American Hobo". What I found most interesting is when they arrived at Britt, Iowa for the hobo convention,
They described it as no longer a truly hobo type of place but rather filled with tourist and family and kids like at a street carnival. A true hobo gathering wouldn't have kids,, and that the american hobo disappearing they said.
I graduated from Olentangy Liberty and I am also a Biology major. I found the same thing that the hobo culture is no longer true to form and over the past couple decades it has become a shadow of what it formerly was. I found that the hobo's of the past would probably not be to enthusiastic of the hobo gathering and would be shocked as to what it has become.
ReplyDeleteI also found it interesting that all a hobo had to do was throw a pebble on the ground and the other hobos knew that they were one of them. I also find it interesting that the hobo convention is now more like a carnival, and how you said a true hobo gathering wouldn't have kids but when he became a hobo he was only 13.
ReplyDeleteWell, it says that a hobo can't HAVE kids; that doesn't necessarily imply that they have to BE kids. Also it's a bit interesting about that pebble thing. I wonder how hobos came up with that. I'm thinking that maybe the first ones established a symbol and a rule with symbols and then split up and told it to newbie-hobos. That would be interesting. But I guess we'll never know for sure.
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