Everyone needs their space, and another slick feature of Comfort Island is that there is space galore. Kira and I took over the upstairs bedroom facing the main channel after Deb moved to the three-room maid’s complex. I took over the room next to ours where Ellen-Betsy stayed during her early years, and I turned that room into what Mom had identified as a “mad room.” I never quite figured out what she meant by that, but I do realize it was about having a place to go to get away from it all.
Mom’s mad room was situated off the living room that later became known as the catchall “antique room.” The room had a large, varnished oak desk with pigeon holes located at the far edge of the writing surface. I remember her stowing things like the Consuelo payment coupons, correspondence, and stationary in the handy compartments. She also kept things like knickknacks and other personal items in the drawers. Some of her sizeable hat collection found a temporary home on or next to the desk as well.
Deb had her own office next to her room in the maid’s quarters. Kira grew to like the dining porch as her daytime getaway venue. Dad took over the spacious room next to the room with the upstairs fireplace where he and Mom slept.
My special area was a cozy and solitary setting where I could contemplate and create. I received a padded rocking chair for my birthday in the early 1970s that I placed in an optimal position to view the channel and the Narrows. I used this hospitable seat until the armrests had no fabric left and the rocking apparatus broke. I replaced it with a new rocking chair not once but twice.
I had a throw blanket that I’d cover my lap and legs with when the weather was uncivilized. I occasionally used a space heater too when it ...
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... the scene around 1990. The computer took the drudgery out of editing my work. I could “cut and paste” to improve a presentation, and if I had grammar errors or spelling mistakes, fixing them was as simple as pressing the delete key and retyping the affected section. The computer undoubtedly improved my writing overnight. I could now think about what I was going to say rather than worrying about how to get the general message onto the paper without mishap.
Having so much free space is a luxury that comes with living in a mansion. The Grenadier house is big but nowhere near the size of Comfort, which is okay when the weather is pleasant because there are an array of seating options on one of the two outside porches. However when it turns cold, and other family members are there to share the limited indoor space, it causes me to long for my mad room at Comfort Island.
The house Sylvie attempts to "keep" must accommodate change including the peace and threat implied by nothingness. "A house should be built to float cloud high, if need be...A house should have a compass and a keel" (184). Rather than being seduced by the ultimate and final separation of nothingness, Ruth learns (as a transient) that housekeeping can be an expansive and inclusive method of engaging and interpreting the world.
The cabins are pretty nice for by the beach. There are eight beds total, and there are 5 cabinets that could hold many things like bags and stuff. Then there were 8 drawers for shoes that came out out from under the bed. The mattresses were plastic, but they weren't bad. My favorite part of the cabins was the view, from the cabin called MIRAMAR there was the most amazing view of the ocean. Then there are the bathrooms. The bathrooms are like a cleaner version of public restrooms.
a previous visit. I had a hide-a-bed couch, a love seat, a desk, and other
The Room itself represents the author’s unconscious protective cell that has encased her mind, represented by the woman, for a very long time. This cell is slowly deteriorating and losing control of her thoughts. I believe that this room is set up as a self-defense mechanism when the author herself is put into the asylum. She sets this false wall up to protect her from actually becoming insane and the longer she is in there the more the wall paper begins to deteriorate. This finally leads to her defense weakening until she is left with just madness and insanity. All of the characters throughout the story represent real life people with altered roles in her mind. While she is in the mental institute she blends reality with her subconscious, forming this story from events that are happening all around here in the real world.
Except, her room, in contrast to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, represents personal freedom. Susan on the other hand chooses to downgrade and stays at a hotel that is well below her standard of living. Room 19 is described as “hideous. It had a single window, with thin green brocade curtains, a three-quarter bed that had a cheap green satin bed spread on it.” (Lessing 883) Although the room may be repulsive, Susan finds comfort in it. Even though it appears that Susan may have what many people are striving for in life, it is clearly not enough to make her
This details a living room/social area, a kitchen or family style eating area, laundry accessible to the residents, a bathroom within the resident's room and they are to have an outdoor activity area.
Do not fret; this is not a spoiler because it is written on the inside of the front cover. Room is a story, told through Jack’s perspective, about a mother and her son, Jack, who are imprisoned in an eleven by eleven foot room by a vile man referred to as Old Nick. However, there is a difference between Jack and his mother’s confinement: Jack’s mother, who is referred to as Ma by Jack, has been held captive in this room for seven years; whereas Jack has been born and raised there and so to him, this room is spelled with a capital “R”; in other words, Room is his dear
Anndee’s house is unique with its red picket fence, a bathroom with two doors, bedrooms surrounded by paper thin walls, and no bedroom doors. Also a glass panel window that was built into a wall that separated the living room from the kitchen. An added feature left behind from years of construction and now disregarded but adding to the overall character of the house. These unique fixtures and anomalies were what made the trip to the house worth the voyage each year from the city. They were thrust into an alien environment completely different from what they were used to. The whole house was set up with unspoken rules that they all abided by without question. The rooms were assigned to a particular family member, group, or couples. The topics of conversation were predictable and planned to the point that they all knew what would be acceptable answers and replies to each topic they discussed.
My family had collected in the basement, a testament to tacky décor with a dash of dank-
The place where I feel the most comfortable, and show my personality, is my bedroom. This is the place where I can really be myself and do what I want; it’s the place I come home to, and wake up every day. My room makes me feel comfortable because it is my own space. My house is always crazy, with my dog barking, and my siblings running around making noise, my room is the only place in the house where I can come and relax without caring about everything else, the only place that I can go to clear my mind.
Do you ever wonder why certain places mean so much to certain people? When I think of my bedroom, I realize why some people are touchy about who goes in their room or who has been touching things in their home, it is because those things are important to them and may have some meaning. Places like my bedroom are places where we can relax and be comfortable and I think that is why it is important to people, because we can be ourselves and feel comfortable, we can also just sit down and rest our bones and relax. Another important reason is we can go there when we want privacy, we can just shut our door, maybe even lock it, and tell everyone in our household not to bother us. Also our rooms hold most of our personal belongings and those things are important to us and we do not want anyone else to touch them or in some cases go near them.
Susan struggled to get out of the culturally defined norms in the society. She wanted her marriage to be different but instead it wasn’t. Her traditional marriage drove her insane. Her marriage was lack of communication which caused her to distance herself from her family secretly. She escaped to room nineteen as Ozsert , S (2004) “A Passage to Freedom” stated by Khun Zhao (2012) the room is “a shelter from housework, children and unfaithful husband.
Setting: In many of Pinter’s plays, “the room” is used as stage setting and domestic scenarios are milieu for cruelty and violence. The Room, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter etc have domestic setting as backdrop of cruelty. These plays show one or two characters in possession of a room. The plot of the play focuses on the domestic relationships between the residents of the room and how a drastic change occurs in their mundane lives due to the sudden arrival of an unknown outsider. The victims of the impending menace feel safe and secure within the four walls of a room and consider the outside world as threatening and full of dangers. Stanley in ‘The Birthday Party’, Rose in ‘The Room’, Aston in ‘The Caretaker’ and Gus in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ all feel comfortable and secure in their respective rooms or lodgings. Stanley lives in a boarding house near the sea. Rose lives in a warm and cozy room in a large house surrounded on all sides by a murderous chilly weather. Aston in ‘The Caretaker’ lives in a house in west London. And though in ‘The Dumb Waiter’ Ben and Gus are seen sitting in a basement room, Gus has household concerns. This is reflected when he appreciates the beauty of the crockery, find faults with the decrepit and out of order lavatory, the room's lack of a window, the bed on which he couldn't sleep, his hankering for another blanket and his apprehension at the thought that the sheets in the room might not have been fresh. Pinter had chosen
My grandmothers house has always been a safe haven for me. When I’m here I feel safe , I feel like nothing can get to me , nothing can interrupt the comfort and ease I feel when I’m here. There have been multiple times when I’m going through something at home or personal and this is the place I come to escape and gain some perspective and clarity.
In regards to Language Arts education, the prominence of word processors has helped to ease the work of editing and rewriting. Built in spelling ...