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My Little Bit of Country
Every person has a special connection to the place he or she grew up. In addition, all people are wonderfully different, so everyone has different opinions about where they would rather grow up. For Susan Cheever, this was in New York near Central Park. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay from 2012 written by Susan Cheever, where she writes about her life from her childhood until she had kids herself who also grew up. In western culture, industrialization was the main reason for people moving from the country in to the cities, and in the essay, we get a clear indication of what Cheever prefers, but what might other people think?
In “My Little Bit of Country”, we are told from Susan Cheever’s perspective how living up in The Big Apple was. We really get to know our author, since she talks a lot about thoughts and feelings from her childhood. The essay starts out with Susan Cheever talking about her father coming home from World War II, so the essay starts in mid-forties and we assume it goes up to present date. The author uses a lot of adjectives and metaphors in her essay, which gives the entire text some kind of life. We really get an insight in how she grasped the city and loved it as a child. When Susan Cheever moved to the suburbs with her parents, she did not like it. She describes the suburbs as a complete contrast to the living city. On page 3, line 110: “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water, topping it off with a lemonade from the cart on Fifth Avenue?” Cheever missed the city, though, so she (page 3, line 126) “took the train back to New York at every opportunity.” This gives us an impression of her being very independent and a woman of habits - already as a young girl. It is as if Cheever does not need anything to do in the city. As long as she is there, she is happy and she is home. When she gets children
Every person has a special connection to the place he or she grew up. In addition, all people are wonderfully different, so everyone has different opinions about where they would rather grow up. For Susan Cheever, this was in New York near Central Park. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay from 2012 written by Susan Cheever, where she writes about her life from her childhood until she had kids herself who also grew up. In western culture, industrialization was the main reason for people moving from the country in to the cities, and in the essay, we get a clear indication of what Cheever prefers, but what might other people think?
In “My Little Bit of Country”, we are told from Susan Cheever’s perspective how living up in The Big Apple was. We really get to know our author, since she talks a lot about thoughts and feelings from her childhood. The essay starts out with Susan Cheever talking about her father coming home from World War II, so the essay starts in mid-forties and we assume it goes up to present date. The author uses a lot of adjectives and metaphors in her essay, which gives the entire text some kind of life. We really get an insight in how she grasped the city and loved it as a child. When Susan Cheever moved to the suburbs with her parents, she did not like it. She describes the suburbs as a complete contrast to the living city. On page 3, line 110: “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water, topping it off with a lemonade from the cart on Fifth Avenue?” Cheever missed the city, though, so she (page 3, line 126) “took the train back to New York at every opportunity.” This gives us an impression of her being very independent and a woman of habits - already as a young girl. It is as if Cheever does not need anything to do in the city. As long as she is there, she is happy and she is home. When she gets children