Hw - 58 Prom Interviews

Nadia (Age: 13)
I expecct Prom to be the best night ever. Its going to be the best night ever because you plan for an entire day to have the most amount of fun with your friends and date, also because you get to dress up really nice. People should particpate in going to prom because its an experience that you only get in high school and why would you want to miss that and wouldn't you like to look back on that experience and share it with people you know in the future? Some reason people would not like to go to prom is because they might be uncomfortable with what prom is; a night of socializing and dancing. Not attending prom, people would think differently of you because you missed out on a supposebly significant part of your high school years. Influences in prom might be from media because for every prom there is shown on television, there are always big decoration and high standards the students will set for themselves such as, limo's, outfits and the plan for after-prom. I would like to attend prom because I would like to be apart of the experience and the whole emotions there is filled with going to prom and planning out series of events leading up to prom and after it.

Natalie (Age:27)
My prom experience was one of the more founders memories of high school I had and having a really great time with my friends. The difficulties of prom were trying to find the perfect dress and the arrangements of the limo with friends. Finding the right sized limo and coming up with a budget and coordinating friends to pay for their share were probably the most difficult because if you were not invited to be in the limo, you weren't consider a "close friend" which some people might of taken in offence. The "fun" part came easy, dancing, enjoying myself, dressing, make up and hair. If I were to go back, the only thing I would change is to take more pictures. Taking a million pictures pictures tells millions of stories when you get older and cannot remember as well. People who don't attend prom during my years were not really stigmatized but missed an important oppertunity to celebrate your last years of high school.


From my interviews, a lot of similarities that are shared are the experiences people look foward to having before, during and after prom.Some commonalities shared were prom being an "once in a lifetime" experience that one should attend to be apart of the "once in a lifetime" conversations. Another was to enjoy your self and that people who do not attend prom should not be stigmatized for not going but consider it as a missed oppertunity.