Personal Essay : Two Homes In My Neighborhood

Last but not least, Mama and Ruth have the aspiration of living in a new home. The apartment in which they currently reside is small, dark, and handled with care: "the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and hope [. . .]" (988). It is evident that the home is a very important to the Younger family and it is a critical

The house in the story was passed through the family for generations, “We liked the house because apart from being old and spacious, it kept the memories of our great grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents, and the whole of childhood,” (Cortazar 37), this shows how truly appreciated this house is to Irene and the Narrator, this then comes too soon show representation of the future scares throughout the story, “How to not remember the layout of that house. The dining room,

The first home that they live in is with Jeannette’s grandmother, Erma. Jeannette describes the inside of the house, saying, “It was cold in the house, and the air smelled of mold and cigarettes and unwashed laundry” (131). In addition to the house being a tad run down, the kids were only allowed to bathe in four inches of water once a week and that they all must share. Not only did they have unfit living conditions at home, Jeannette was constantly being bullied at school and does not seem to be able fit in with all of the other kids (140), which is also making it difficult for her to concentrate on her schoolwork. The second house that the Walls family lived in is a little old rundown shack on 93 Little Hobart Street which is no better than the house they shared with Erma. In all actuality, it is probably worse since the kitchen ceiling leaks when it rains (154) and the entire area surrounding the foundation becomes a garbage dump because the family cannot afford to pay for trash pick-up (155). With their father, Rex constantly drinking and their mother, Rose Mary leaving the children to fend for themselves, Lori and Jeannette decide that, for their own good and sake of their future, they should distance themselves from the family start a new life in New

schedule of the family that lives in the house, which is a family of 4, throughout the story, but the

Another aspect that contributes to the stories’ setting is the descriptions of the homes of the Snopes and the Griersons. Miss Emily’s home is described as being decorated and clean with many details in the woodwork, and the Snopes’ home is told to be a paintless, two bedroom house like the many others they had lived in. Both homes in the stories have become the symbol for the class of people which they house, but as Miss Emily had shrunk from her aristocratic mindset, so did her house. The location of the action of both stories cannot be more different, but their locations contribute greatly to the mood created in the stories.

Characteristics of the home: main level living with a dining area, kitchen, family room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom. The home has an unfinished basement that Dad has been slowly remodeling for the past five years. The neighborhood is a vast wooded area with few homes. The family’s geographic mobility consists of the upper northwest part of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where Mom’s family resides. The family is associated with the Lutheran church and transacts with community members at the church, local grocery store, and restaurants. The family’s social support network consists of their family and close friends.

Nick’s descriptions of the two houses depict a true representation of the person within. No matter how alike the houses are in size or style, Nick is able to identify the people inside with his word choices and honest perceptions. At the beginning Nick says East and West Egg were “identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay”, but the “more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”(5). The contrasting dynamic of

community. So when the Shelly’s purchase the house, the Kraemer’s who lived ten blocks from

The family lives in the Prentice Park section of the city in a three bedroom ranch style home. The home consists of a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a fenced in backyard. The home did not appear to be in need of any repair. Jaikayliah’s room was not neat and her bed is a mattress on the floor. The family has access to services such as the health department, public transportation and hospitals. Jaikayliah has been living in this home since November of 2016.

The house is a connection to who the characters are, their being and culture. This is evident when the “black fella” is constantly telling Quick to “go home” throughout the story, referring to Cloudstreet. Rose’s decision to give up her house in the new suburbs and move back to Cloudstreet is also an example of this connection to the house, as Rose and Quick, as part of their character development, realise they cannot abandon who they are; they cannot abandon Cloudstreet.

A review of the house itself suggests that an architectural hierarchy of privacy increases level by level. At first, the house seems to foster romantic sensibilities; intrigued by its architectural connotations, the narrator embarks upon its description immediately--it is the house that she wants to "talk about" (Gilman 11). Together with its landscape, the house is a "most beautiful place" that stands "quite alone . . . well back from the road, quite three miles from the village" (Gilman 11). The estate's grounds, moreover, consist of "hedges and walls and gates that lock" (Gilman 11). As such, the house and its grounds are markedly depicted as mechanisms of confinement--ancestral places situated within a legacy of control and

It has four beds and two bathrooms, plus a pool in the backyard. The neighborhood provides a good environment for the whole family. With a two story home, 9 rooms, and even a fireplace, this home fits what they wanted in a home originally. They chose this home based on price, whether or not it provided everything their family needed, and on the look and feel of the home. Their home zip code is 6652036.

Krista 28 and will Martin 32 have two kids together and are looking for a more roomy home. Katie and josh who are seven year old fraternal twins have shared a bedroom their whole life. The martin's would like to have at least a three bedroom house. Kritsta would like to live in her home town,Browerville, Mn. Will, who loves to water ski would like to live by a lake. josh and Katie's only request is to have a nice big backyard to play in. Krista also wants a big kitchen for family dinners where she can Display her chicken knickknacks.

The narrator describes the entire mansion from the hedges to the gates, to the garden as “the most beautiful place ever”. All of it is beautiful except for the bedroom in which she is kept in, but again the room selection was not her choice. “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it.” The room had previously been a child’s nursery, and had bars on the window. Though she recently had a child, her newborn did not occupy this nursery. The baby was looked after by Johns’ sister, something he had also arranged, and the narrator had very little contact with her child. As the story progresses, the narrator begins to fill more and more trapped by the room and completely obsessed with the “repellent, almost revolting” yellow wallpaper that surrounds her. In many of her secret

Home is the place one spends more time in their life and share special moments with family. Where one expects to live permanently carefree and feel protected under the roof of their house. One day I want to have a home that makes me feel well and where I can be safe and happy. The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the decisions I made about designing my future dream house.