What is Tonypandy? That is a great question, one I
wish I had the answer to. Unfortunately, when I highlighted the term from The
Daughter of Time on my iPad, there was no definition. All I know is that it
has something to do with history. I have been wracking my brain trying to find
the definition, or some kind of hint at what it might mean on the Internet.
The good news is that, from my point of view, it
should be fairly easy to find. The bad news, it really isn't. There is no
straight answer, and most of the links are just references to The Daughter
of Time. Which made me give up halfway through on finding an answer online
because before I knew it, I was clicking through the Google links and ended up
on page eight before I decided, enough was enough.
In the end instead of looking it up online, I
decided that I would see how it is used in The
Daughter of Time and try and figure it out that way. My theory is that
Tonypandy is something like a false accounting of history that everyone perceives
as correct. That is how it was used, in my opinion.
Though this book did get me thinking, what else is there that we get wrong about history? Their must be many things but we simply have no evidence to disprove how said history was recorded in the first place.
On a side note, how crazy was this snowstorm, we have never had one this
big in a long time and let me tell you, shoveling all of that snow was not fun.
I’m surprised I was even able to get out of the house. I had to go out of the
window and trudge my way over to the front door. Even after that my parents and
I had to clear the snow off of the driveway and the cars, which took us a long
time. Just shoveling a foot long path out of the snow took a long time because
it was so deep.
There could be multiple things wrong in our history. But, how we are for sure that they truly happened as to our discussion in class on the first day when we were trying to figure out what is fiction and what is history. History has backing to it, but it is unknown if the writer of the backing has some sort of bias or an agenda but we have to take it as fact as that is all can get at that time.
ReplyDeleteYou are wondering what else we got wrong about history, I am more wondering why we got certain things wrong. I would love to know who managed to destroy what documents to make which politicians look better. A Daughter of Time has got me feeling like when it comes to history we've probably lost nearly as much to "historians" with biases as we lost when the Library of Alexandria burned.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mat about what is history and what is fiction, history has to have some sort of universal consensus on certain events that happened. On second note, the snowstorm kept most of us in our houses, kinda how Alan felt i guess being in a bed with a broken leg not being able to go anywhere, I would go crazy if i had to stay in bed or in my house rather for that long.
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