Through Deaf Eyes Documentary Analysis

What was your experience and feelings about watching it? Throughout the documentary film Through Deaf Eyes, I felt amazed by deaf culture. The deaf culture is a versatile, rich, and unique community that more people need to be aware of. When the film was covering the transition of ASL schools to oral only I mostly felt ashamed of my own culture. Someone as Alexander Graham Bell, who is naturally considered one of the greatest inventors in the hearing world, believed that the language used by the deaf community was not a language. The hearing world is the most dominant one, there is no doubt. However, there has to be an understanding that not everyone who is different from the “typical” is “atypical”. A language is nothing but patterns of signs, symbols, and/or sounds that are used to convey meaning. In what manner does sign language not fit the category of a language?
How was your view different from what you expected?
My view while watching the documentary was what I had expected it to be. I found that I actually already knew a lot of the information discussed in the film, not a lot was new. I still found myself “rooting” for the deaf community. I felt angry when the hearing word made the deaf world believe that ASL was wrong, and felt proud as the Gallaudet University fought to have someone from their world

I thought that the marshmallow short film was extremely impactful. The notion that people feel like they have to hide their true selves is painful. When my grandmother was in Poland during the Holocaust, she pretended that she was not Jewish so that her life would be spared. Later, when she came to Israel, she wore a locket with the Virgin Mary in it until her last day of high school. The story the girl told in the movie reminded me of my grandmother 's story. The huge difference being that my grandmother had to protect herself. While the girl felt like she was so different that she could not be who she is. That broke my