What a conversation looks like

This is a fictional story: the person, names and events are invented to show how the questions sound.

A fictional example conversation. Nina, 71, talks about the house where she grew up.

1. Interviewer

   Which house does your childhood begin with?

2. You

   My grandmother's, in Kaluga. A wooden house with a stove we fed with birch logs. In winter the windows froze so thick I drew on them with my finger.

3. Interviewer

   What did you draw?

4. You

   Can I tell you about our neighbour instead? He taught me to skate.

5. Interviewer

   Of course. What was his name, and how do you remember him?

6. You

   Uncle Vasya. Tall, in felt boots. He used to say falling is not scary, not getting up is.

7. Interviewer

   Did those words come back to you later?

8. You

   When my husband and I had to start over in the nineties. I repeated them a lot back then.

9. Interviewer

   What did you have to start over?

That is how the interviewer leads a conversation: one question at a time, asking what happened and what it meant. You do not have to answer everything.

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