Drawing on some of the biographies we have discussed so far we will focus on a key question in the narrative construction of a biography: are there key moments in a life, turning points that give it meaning and definition?
Against the background of the burning city Baudolino recounts his eventful life, whose turning point came when, still a boy "living with my father and mother, a few cows and a vegetable patch," he was adopted by Frederick during one of his campaigns in Italy.
(Female participant, ACT, housed) I've lived a very rough life but I've made it, I am here today to say that this program has helped me in so many ways of my life…a turning point where I don't have to think about drugs and I don't have to think about being homeless, I don't have to think about anything but positive things from now on.
His victory over the Turkmen leader Uzun Ḥasan at the Battle of Bashkent in Erzincan (August 11 , 1473 marked in Mehmed's life a turning point as important as the capture of Constantinople, and it sealed his domination over Anatolia and the Balkans.
Incarceration has been identified as a consequential, later-in-life turning point that might redirect the life-course (Laub & Sampson, 2003), although perhaps not always for the better (Cullen, Jonson, & Nagin, 2011).
A wedding is a major life event, a turning point, a sacred day that is unlike any other day in one's life.
"Columbus's heart belonged to God," he assures his readers, and he notes that a particular event in the explorer's life "marked the turning point of God's plan to use Columbus to raise the curtain on His new Promised Land".
Isn't the out-of-touch-Dad lecture a prerequisite to hitting life's turning points?
Author of Unbinding The Heart Agapi Stassinopoulos joined me to talk about achieving your goals, asking for what you want, dealing with life's turning points, and more!
Meetings are entitled: your name; smells from the past; houses you've lived in; recognizing your resources; hands; photographs; friendship; balance; thread of life and turning points; longing and desire; the future in me; and identity.
It's easy to stand out from the crowd if you take some time and create a snapshot of your life, for example write about one moment from your life that represents a turning point of some sort.
