Personal Narrative: I have seen Elvis Presley :: Celebrity Actor Acting Performing Musician

I Have Seen ElvisWhile driving force down the expressway late last Saturday night I truism the strangest thing. There on the side of the road was an old broken-down inconsolable Cadillac. As I passed, thats when I saw it. Out of the corner of my philia it was him. There stood Elvis Presley, the King, kicking at the flattened tire of his dilapidate out Cadillac. I propound it was him. He had the side-burns, the wonderfully slicked O.K. hair, and dear as he went out of sight I swear he was doing that lip thing. As I think back on that night I wonder to myself if it was really him or if I middling really wanted it to be. To me he is a symbol of both a lifestyle and a generation. Even though he supposedly died a month before I was born, his image and his likeness has so a good deal meaning for me. Was it his greasy hair, the rebellious sexuality of his gyrating hips or just that splenetic look in his eye? All these years I hold in never really known how my obsession with him came about. Now that I am in college I am beginning to question how this man of comparatively little talent became such a hero to me and such a legend of American pop-culture?I guess for me, I am just infatuated with his image. You could say Im sold on it. Elvis was everything I ingest always wanted to be. He was a rebellious loner and besides incredibly popular. Elvis was always carrying around a pretty guitar just now it is rumored he could barely play three cords on it. Presley was so phenomenally talented that even after dead for more than 22 years, he is still making more money than the average straining working American. He was a poor southern boy who was manufacture and constructed into American royalty. It is for these reasons that I hold a special place in my heart for Elvis. It is also for these reasons that I will from now on respectfully refer to him as, The King.The King is the result of the manipulation and the marketing of the American humanity through the use o f the mass media. The first weapon used to print the wallets of the American people was the record. Rock n Roll, a rebellious new dear that was immediately embraced by the young teen-agers of the fifties was a great twist point in our American society.