My Little Bit of Country
My Little Bit of Country by Susan Cheever
In this assignment, I am going to analyze and comment on the American writer, Susan Cheever’s (1943) essay, My Little Bit of Country from the anthology Central Park published in 2012, where parts of my assignment will focus on the use of contrasts and the themes explored in the essay.
Susan Cheever’s essay is based on her own memories of Central Park in New York City, which is her ‘little bit of country’. In My Little Bit of Country, Susan Cheever contrasts the life in the country versus the life in the city, where the two different landscapes are the fundamental basis of her memories in the suburban and the urban landscape. The essay’s main theme is the relation between society and nature, because of Susan Cheever’s fascination of Central Park, her “(…) natural wonderland (...)”1 in the middle of the urban chaos.
Susan Cheever’s essay, My Little Bit of Country is a personal account of her beloved Central Park. It is a personal account, because it is Susan Cheever herself, who tells her own recollections in first-person narrator. Therefore, can the essay characterizes as a personal periodical of the genre, non-literary prose, because the essay is subjective and Susan Cheever wants to inform about Central Park and its beauty in the middle of the industrial New York City.
Additionally, Susan Cheever’s language is through the essay reader-friendly, because the essay is written in an easily comprehensible language, which attracts a huge target group - but behind the comprehensible language, Susan Cheever hides her main purpose with her essay. Her main purpose is to honour Central Park with its diverse glory. To honour Central Park, Susan Cheever uses a contrasting language, where the adjectives reveal her attitude and vision of Central Park in New York City and the life in the ‘real’ country, in Westchester. An example of the contrasting language does this quotation demonstrates: “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy
In this assignment, I am going to analyze and comment on the American writer, Susan Cheever’s (1943) essay, My Little Bit of Country from the anthology Central Park published in 2012, where parts of my assignment will focus on the use of contrasts and the themes explored in the essay.
Susan Cheever’s essay is based on her own memories of Central Park in New York City, which is her ‘little bit of country’. In My Little Bit of Country, Susan Cheever contrasts the life in the country versus the life in the city, where the two different landscapes are the fundamental basis of her memories in the suburban and the urban landscape. The essay’s main theme is the relation between society and nature, because of Susan Cheever’s fascination of Central Park, her “(…) natural wonderland (...)”1 in the middle of the urban chaos.
Susan Cheever’s essay, My Little Bit of Country is a personal account of her beloved Central Park. It is a personal account, because it is Susan Cheever herself, who tells her own recollections in first-person narrator. Therefore, can the essay characterizes as a personal periodical of the genre, non-literary prose, because the essay is subjective and Susan Cheever wants to inform about Central Park and its beauty in the middle of the industrial New York City.
Additionally, Susan Cheever’s language is through the essay reader-friendly, because the essay is written in an easily comprehensible language, which attracts a huge target group - but behind the comprehensible language, Susan Cheever hides her main purpose with her essay. Her main purpose is to honour Central Park with its diverse glory. To honour Central Park, Susan Cheever uses a contrasting language, where the adjectives reveal her attitude and vision of Central Park in New York City and the life in the ‘real’ country, in Westchester. An example of the contrasting language does this quotation demonstrates: “Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy