In small town Carbondale, Kansas sits a little three bedroom ranch style home eight houses north of the Santa Fe Trail Middle School. For many years this house was filled with life but now lies there silent, lonely, and abandoned longing for the return of the pitter-patter of children’s feet running through its halls. What was once known as the house with the artwork on the garage now blends with every other house on the block. It’s amazing how a house that was so hated for so many years could now be missed.
When you walked through the big, black front door you enter the dining room. The room instantly appears to be bigger than it really is. The floors have a dull completion with the covering of dust and dirt and the evidence of an amateur remodel. The large window beside the door is the only source of light for the dining room. Another tiny window further down the wall is the only source of light for the kitchen. At night the small one-person kitchen is nothing but a black space. During the day the nothingness of the night becomes visible. Sitting beneath the small window is the kitchen sink. Water droplets resting against the stainless steel sparkles in the day light. On the right side of the counter in which the sink sits a long counter. Near the end of the counter sits spots of pure whiteness
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The south wall is lined with grotesque velvet wallpaper and little pieces of wood running up the wall. The humongous closet, once overflowing with clothing, softball equipment, shoes, and other personal belongings seem unnaturally empty like the rest of the house. Beside the big window is a small countertop drawer that seems extremely out of place in this dark room. Pinned against the wall beside the door is a Confederate flag with obvious history. Unlike other rooms in the house the carpet is clean and healthy. The only sign the room was once occupied is the vivid outline on the floor of the bed, dresser, and
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s documentary, The House I Live In, both discuss the controversial issues surrounding the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and drug laws. Ultimately, both Alexander and Jarecki concede that the court systems have systematically hindered growth and advancement in black communities by targeting young African Americans, primarily male, that have become entangled in drugs due to their socioeconomic status. There is a disturbing cycle seen in black underprivileged neighborhoods of poverty leading to drug use and distribution to make money that inevitably ends with the person in question landing in prison before likely repeating these actions upon their release. Both Jarecki and Alexander present their case, asserting that the effects of the War on Drugs acted as a catalyst for the asymmetric drug laws and
The House on Mango Street shows the emotions of a little girl who moves into a real house for the first time. It is narrated by the little girl who explains why she is unhappy with her family's choice. While she feels as if she should be happy she knows that this is not what her family and herself want. The narrator feels that the house is not what she wants and that the house is not what they deserve.
Also, the inside of the house felt cooler inside than outside once walking a few steps inside. When walking to the left along the hallway is a living room with a window to look out at the front yard, a multi-purpose pool table set and a couple of couches. I kept walking down the hallway until I reached the dining room; the long wooden table was empty except for the same oak chairs surrounding the table as if they were worshipping the table. The seven candle holder against the right side of the wall isn 't lit because the dining room had enough light from the sun shining through the sliding glass door that is past the main living room. From here I could hear my turtle tank and my fish tank filters splashing the water like kids in a
When we see little kids running around and playing or sound asleep, most of us think of them as angels sent from heaven. We, as parents and future parents, love to see our children grow to become handsome sons and beautiful daughters. We do everything in our hands to keep them in the right tracks to become respectful human beings. We would want to be with them every second of their lives, but at some point we have to let them go and set them free. At one point in life, everyone hold secrets, including our own children.
Reading is similar to looking into a mirror: audiences recognize themselves in the experiences and characters on the pages. They see the good, the bad, and are brought back to experiences they had overlooked to learn something more about themselves. Some characters touch readers so intimately that they inspire readers to be better than they already are. House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, follows a young girl named Esperanza and her experiences while living on Mango Street. She is introduced with her desperate wish to escape her poor mostly-Latino neighborhood and live in a house of her own. Esperanza compares herself to her family, innocently knowing what she wants from a young ages. She is observant and holds insights into the lives of others, learning lessons from each person she encounters. While
Looking around the abandoned cottage, I spotted a lantern next to the door hanging on a hook. I took out my lighter and lit it up, grabbing it off the hook. I held it in front of me at a distance so I could the rest of the room. It was a ugly green colored room, the wallpaper was peeling off the wall; most of it had already come off. The furniture covered in plastic.
Jane Gross, a former New York Times reporter, provides a walk-through manual for dealing with the challenges of caring for older family members, including navigating through the health care system, choosing a doctor and understanding Medicare. She also provides valuable suggestions to help caregivers take care of themselves.
Happiness through Self-Realization In Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, we encounter the young and beautiful Nora on Christmas Eve. Nora Helmer is a playful and affectionate young woman full of life and zeal. As the play progresses, we learn that Nora is not just a “silly girl” (Ibsen) as Torvald refers to her. She learns of the business world related to debt that she acquired by taking out a loan in order to save her beloved Torvald's life.
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The book A Painted House by John Grisham creates a strong sense of place. The book starts by the narrator, a little boy named Luke, saying that his grandfather, known as Pappy, are searching for workers to help them with the cotton picking. They hire the Spruills who are known as hill people and a few Mexican workers who come to the area looking for work. Besides working long hours under the hot sun in the fields picking cotton, Luke's life is wonderful until he sees Hank Spruill attack three boys from the Sisco family on the Main Street in the Co-op, one of them is beaten so badly he dies from his wounds. Hank tells Sheriff Stick Powers that Luke was a witness who can support his version of the event, and the frightened boy backs up his story,
Imagine constantly moving from place to place and never been able to consider somewhere “home”, while trying to defy the perception that people have about your neighborhood. Imagine living in an area in where you are discouraged from following your dreams and that you are never allowed to leave this place because everybody will be mad at you or cannot believe you cannot succed. These two stories unfold in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The novels describe how young adolescents try to defy their destinies by pursuing the unexpected. The protagonists, Esperanza and Junior, disprove the negative attitudes that others have of them and their cultures by showing
They began to realized that a larger house was necessary and in 1974 moved to new home on Park Street in Cerritos, a sky-blue two-story featuring a red brick porch that sat parallel to a dairy farm that housed hundreds of cows. Just minutes away from the Cerritos Mall, a frequent destination for my mother and her sisters as teenagers, this new home signified the true meaning of “success” to my grandparents. They had made it; they left all that they had known, family, friends, their entire lives, and started a new life on the Gold
“Home is where the heart is.” In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros develops this famous statement to depict what a “home” really represents. What is a home? Is it a house with four walls and a roof, the neighborhood of kids while growing up, or a unique Cleaver household where everything is perfect and no problems arise? According to Cisneros, we all have our own home with which we identify; however, we cannot always go back to the environment we once considered our dwelling place. The home, which is characterized by who we are, and determined by how we view ourselves, is what makes every individual unique. A home is a personality, a depiction of who we are inside and how we grow through our life experiences. In her personal, Cisneros depicts Esperanza Cordero’s coming-of-age through a series of vignettes about her family, neighborhood, and personalized dreams. Although the novel does not follow a traditional chronological pattern, a story emerges, nevertheless, of Esperanza’s search to discover the meaning of her life and her personal identity. The novel begins when the Cordero family moves into a new house, the first they have ever owned, on Mango Street in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza is disappointed by the “small and red” house “with tight steps in front and bricks crumbling in places” (5). It is not at all the dream-house her parents had always talked about, nor is it the house on a hill that Esperanza vows to one day own for herself. Despite its location in a rough neighborhood and difficult lifestyle, Mango Street is the place with which she identifies at this time in her life.
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When reminiscing about my childhood a home is hard to recall. It seemed common for others to have a place called home. Moving from house to house was not the problem, but the empty feeling. Home to me was my grandparent’s house. I spent nearly all of my childhood there. My grandparents bought the one story house with two bedrooms in the early seventies. From the spacious bedroom, to the kitchen with endless possibilities and the way I spent my time this house defined my character.