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Ryan DeLuca
Jan 26, 2019
Eng 123
Dr. Drown
Rough Draft
While I was reading “A toast story” my initial thought was, “what does this have to do with Identities?” once I read more into the story it got to a part of the story that started to make sense to me as to why this story was chosen. The story started getting into where the “fancy toast craze” came from, the origins of the “fancy toast craze” came from a small crapped former dog groomer made coffee shop. The owner of the coffee shop is a woman with a story to tell, her story started when she was a freshman in college, she had been burning through friends and places to stay because she suffers from a rare disorder called “schizoaffective”. This disorder combines bi-polar, depression, hallucinating and psychotic episodes. This was the main cause of her misfortune with some of her friends and landlords because of her episodes some people couldn’t handle her episodes. Eventually she had enough of being left in the dark by her friends and landlords, so she started making a network of people she could become acquainted with, once she finished college she moved to china beach California and worked at a coffee shop for a little bit before starting her network. Once she finished working for the coffee shop she started making her presence known by just walking up to people and saying hi and introducing herself, she would eventually gather enough people she could count on and would borrow money to buy her dog groomer to turn into her coffee shop. “She called the shop Trouble, in honor of all the people who helped her when she was in trouble.” Her shop became her identity in this small area of China beach California, and it was for a good reason she made this shop her identity, she stuck to the same schedule because she wanted people in her area to be able to recognize her and help her if she was having one of her episodes. People would recognize her as the owner of Trouble.
In Carrelli’s case this identity she made for herself, the owner of trouble, may have saved her life and made her able to have something to keep her whole. The same goes for other people, identities make us whole they make us who we are, and everyone can have many different identities such as someone can be a father or mother at home but then at work they are someone who is the head of their department. The identities we give ourselves are given for a purpose, we have no idea of who we are if we don’t give ourselves an identity
