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Knowing Our Place is and excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s SMALL WONDER. The excerpt is basically all about the places where her life stories and where important times in her life take place. They all end up having to take place in the wilderness in a small town, in a small house in the middle of nowhere; where she had actually grown up. She talks about how her log cabin at the end of Walker Mountain is near tobacco plants and also how it has old historic nature to it. She talks about how she loves the rain and how it sounds in her little log cabin house that was built in the early 1900’s. She grew up and spent most her childhood in these woods filled with neighbor’s miles away and

The poem “Finding Home” written by Carolina Hospital tells the story of how Mexicans who come to America try to find their heritage in the United States. Like many who migrate to America, the immigrants miss their country and are concerned about losing their culture. In contrast to Harvey Gomez, this poem shows that many Mexicans in America appreciate their heritage. “I have travelled north again,/to these gray skies/and empty doorways,” (Hospital 101). This shows that they miss their native country and are concerned about forgetting their heritage. Perhaps Harvey’s grandparents thought the same thing when they first came to America from Mexico. Regardless of their arrival in America, they want to return to Mexico someday. “I must travel again soon” (Hospital 102). Despite leaving their native land they have respect for Mexico and will visit again. After the experience that Harvey had in discovering his heritage, I am sure that he will visit Mexico again.

While reading Joan Didion’s essay “On Going Home” one may be reminded of a sense of home and family. In this essay Didion recreates the feeling one gets when one visits a place from the past or while reminiscing about fond memories. This memory is marked by the reflective thought about the ability to be able to pass this same sense on to another. Didion’s “On Going Home” is like a flood of warm memories leaving you with a single reflective thought.

After reading “The Place Where I Was Born”, I look at life in a different way. 2.

In one's life, for many, the place means everything. In the novel Blank by Trina St Jean, a young teen looses her memory after an upsetting accident and spends the novel trying to figure out what happened. Jessica's life is set in her family farm and surrounding forest. Setting is crucial to her story because of her love for nature, her accident, and her runaway plan. To begin, Jessica’s family farm is the perfect place for a nature lover like Jessica, it could be that living on the farm made her develop her love, or that is grew over time. Nonetheless, the farm is a crucial setting to the story: “After taking the first photo it starts to come back to me. Not a memory, but a feeling. Like I’ve done this before” (St. Jean 189). Here it is seen

There was a relaxing feeling coming from the room. The colors were pretty mellow such as the cream-colored walls. Although the room gave off this aura, there was a very elegant tea set in the middle of the room. The wall contained a fireplace while the corner of the room contained a combination of both a bookshelf and a desk. The desk had a pair of golden glasses that belonged to one of the men who lived in the home (I can’t recall exactly who they belonged to). Aside from these things, the room also contained what looked like a very comfortable couch. The guide stated that all of the pieces in the house aside from one fireplace and most of the replicated sales pieces in the General Store.

People have certain places that really stick in their brain. When they smell a certain smell or see a specific thing it reminds them of that place. Memory is influenced by a variety of factors; feelings, thoughts, people, actions and so many more. Certain places can live on a person's memory because of sensory details.

“We cling on to a time and place because without them man is lost, not only man but life” (2). A quote by Loren Eisley “The Brown Wasps.” In life, as humans, we live many different memories, and whether they're sad or happy ones, we will always remember them. But no matter what, there is always going to be one memory that impacted our lives so much that we will find ourselves forever clinging on to the memory of that one event. Both the “Brown Wasps” and “Once more to the Lake” show us just how important our memories are to us.

Thereafter, both the authors have same attitude about the place. Eiseley says “it is the place that matters”. We may not be there physically but it is always in our heart and mind. He has emphasized this by giving examples of pigeon, mouse and the old man. On the other hand White have the same opinion regarding the place. He glorified the place where he was in his childhood. Both agree that Cling towards time and place in future becomes beautiful memory which reinforces people to remember those

Remembering where one comes from is the most important aspect of life. The poem Remember by Joy Harjo describes thise most meaningful of part points in life--, where one lives. With family, friends and emotion life grows and has meaning. People should listen to people's stories and remember where one comes from. The author uses imagery, repetition and symbolism to describe how important life is important.

There is a quote by Carson McCullers that reads “To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from” (McCullers). This quote speaks volumes to our discussion of becoming our places. To know who we are and who we are meant to become, we must first have a place where we originate from. Simply, one’s place needs to become a part of them before an individual can discover who they are fated to become. Throughout the required readings and discussion posts, I am seeing an urgency appearing regarding place and its impacts on our lives.

The locations, in where all the nasty events begin to take a step forward or where the "events" of a character's first bad experience originated from, is comment introduced in dark, serene place. For example, a lake or a dark house or in a forest where children used to play.

One place that I see every day but don’t put much attention to is my house. The house that I live in is near by a park and a gas station. My house is small and cozy is made of steel frames, the anterior part of the house has a beige and pink color that combine a beautiful shade. The inside of my house has many portraits of family members and drawings. I have a total of two bathrooms and four rooms a kitchen and two living rooms. We have a living room that’s used for grown-ups and the other one is used for the children. The kitchen table and chairs are made of wood, in the ceiling there is big chandelier. The walls of my house are painted in different colors that are green, beige and pink. I like that every room has its own different color, it’s not boring it brings life and shade.

In the corner you can see the fairies and pixies fighting over the pizza i was eating yesterday which is infact my favourite food. The design of the rooms is very unique like everything has been put in a place for a reason. The oldest think i can remember here is the sofa which i bought 2 years ago. I remember when we first bought it, the smile on my face and the arguing between my dad and brother. "Go left, Go left" he would yell. Ahh good times. It used to be clean but the constant food i would eat on it could have changed that. Like most teenagers i have many posters on my walls mostly of role models that I admire, favourite teams and a few cute girls here and there. The most visible thing here is probably the red carpet that covers the bedroom as far as your eyes can see. In the corner of my bedroom is my desk which I normally do all of my homework and assignments, On top of it sat my computer which is always on. My previous desk somehow broke and

The opening chapter describes a sense of place through few examples. A place is perceived through our sensory responses and cognitive memory which makes that space unique and special as a type.