The focus of this essay is that the author really did not think that where her and her family lived was violent, but by looking at it from a wider lens, she realized that it was violent. Once the violence came into her home with the thief, snd the violence directly effect the family, they moved. The author saw her apartment as an "elevated castle" with violence not being able to touch her.
This structure is different from the essay ALIVE, because the author is starting specific (with self) and then widen the view. Once she saw the violence around her the "elevated house" began to descend.
The focal point was how she saw herself, her apartment, and the world around her.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
.jpg)
Atom Feed (xml)
1 comment:
The "descent" (to steal your word) from comfort to wariness happens so much in the course of life - we're "ruined" again and again as a simple side effect of life.** Anyone can identify with this pattern, and it's been deeply ingrained in various literatures. You hit that resonance early on here with Danticat - I'd love to have seen how you found it in Drummond.
**To avoid sounding like a total pessimist, we're lifted up again and again as well!
Post a Comment