A Little Bit of Country by Debbie Macomber

She feels her life is too ordinary and boring, especially in comparison to the zoo, where there are many exotic animals and so on. However she says New york is a romantic place, a great place for a new family. In contrast to her parents, she does not want to move away from the city, as she has a “full-blown love affair with Central Park” and enjoys other qualities you get from living in the city; Urban school among others. In no season are New York bad, the summer they can cool off at bethesda fountain, and in the winter they can ski down the Seventy-Ninth Street hill. The impression she gets from people who have already moved tells her that life in the suburbs in nothing for her, and that the alternatives in the city are still much better. The family did however move out to the country in Westchester, by the Hudson. She misses her life in the city, and uses every opportunity to get back briefly. A grown-up woman herself, she raised her son and daughter in the city, and she vowed never to move them to the suburbs as they were city kids. She feels as if the city is more real, than the suburbs which she finds more of a plastic set-up. She goes on to describe her life after, and gives even more reasons as to why she loves the city so much; Central Park is now not only useful, but very beautiful.

Her dad is a soldier who fought in world war 2, he takes her to central park zoo. He currently writes stories for the New Yorker magasine, he’s an artist, but still dress up in his suit everyday to keep up appearance, yet he writes in his underwear in the basement. His stories are about the old New York, that are now lost. Him and his wife wants the american dream with a family, a house in the suburbs and car. They have the daughter and the ...

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...cent narrator. The story is chronologically told from her childhood and onto adulthood. The adjectives are numerous, she spends a greal deal of sentences on just describing how great certain aspects of city are and how bad the suburbs is to her: “magical city” “romantic place” “fanciful playground fountains” “delicious Carousel with its honky tonk music and bright stallions” “it’s incidental beauty” “Why would I swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling in leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water”

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“magical city” “romantic place” “fanciful playground fountains” “delicious Carousel with its honky tonk music and bright stallions” “it’s incidental beauty” “Why would I swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling in leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water”