If you haven’t found a place of silence or a place of comfort, you need one now. In the essay “The Sanctuary of School” by Lynda Barry talks about where she has found a place of hope and a sense of security. A girl that didn’t feel important in her home. She felt neglected, no one gave her attention, and she felt like she was invisible. Then she found out that school was a place that she can get along with. In similar conditions, I feel the same way. I need a place where I can go hide and to feel alone. That place for me is going to the beach. It’s my second home. I feel that everyone should have their own sanctuary place and never to leave it. The essay’s opening paragraph, Barry stated the very first time she snuck out of her house to go …show more content…
In the essay, she stated “I had a particular brand of neglect in my home that allowed me to slip away and get to them. But what about the rest of the kids who weren’t as lucky? What happened to them?” (Barry 236). She was lucky to even be born into a family and not being a foster child, like how some other kids are. Barry could have been born in a family but not being able to attend school due financial problems, health, drugs and gangs. She’s also overwhelmed because she attends to a school that has art. Not many schools have that ability or funds to support activity classes. Barry is a very talented child who knows how to paint and draw. Not only just a drawing table and a paint brush, but plenty of supplies that would make the whole experience better. As she stated in the essay “Drawing came to mean everything to me. At the back table in Room 2, I learned to build myself a life preserver that I could carry into my home” (Barry 235). Going to school and learning made Barry pleased but knowing that she is being loved and cared for at school makes her a new person. She could probably change her parent’s ways of living just by seeing how important she is and how talented her art is when she’s at …show more content…
For me a place that I would get away would be the beach. A beach is like a fulfillment of one’s dream. The classical Newport Beach is the most magnificent beaches here in Southern California. As I stroll along the snake pathway I could see an outstanding painted sky covered with marshmallow type clouds that are slowly passing by. As I move my feet across golden white sand, I could feel the soft and smooth texture rubbing against my toes. I am taken in by the soothing atmosphere that encircles around me. I close my eyes, allowing myself to absorb some Vitamin D due to the sizzling rays of the sun. As I open my eyes I can see an endless pool of crystal blue water. I look afar, past the ocean, and I remember myself saying “Just how much water does the ocean have?” What an amazing God we have! I then jump in the freezing cold water, allowing my body to float wherever the water takes me. All of a sudden, a great buildup of water knocked me down to the bottom and washed me out to the shore. Exhausted, I stood up and return to my peaceful spot on the beautiful sandy beach. I hear all people chatting and smelling the barbeque people are cooking. I smell the burnt wood from the bon fire. The s’mores people were eating. People are also playing sports. As it was night time, you could see the sky full of stars, which you rarely get in California. The beach makes everyone filled with joy. Going
This essay, largely drawn from Elijah Anderson's forthcoming book, Code of the Street, offers an ethnographic representation of the workings of the code of the street in the context of the trying socioeconomic situation in which the inner-city black community finds itself, as jobs have become ever more scarce, public assistance has increasingly disappeared, and frustration has been building for many. The material presented here was gathered through many visits to various inner-city families and neighborhood settings, including carry-outs, laundromats, taverns, playgrounds, and street corners. In these settings, Anderson conducted indepth interviews with adolescent boys and girls, young men (some incarcerated, some not), older men, teenage mothers,
In the novel Schooled, by Gordan Korman, Capricorn Anderson is a hippie from an alternative farm commune called Garland Farms. As he grows up he is taught peace and that the outside world is chaos. One day Rain, his grandmother, falls out of a plum tree and breaks her hip. As Cap drives her to the hospital in the outside world, he is arrested for driving without a license and social services is called and he is picked up by social services because him and Rain are the only people at Garland Farms and he can 't be left alone for that long of a period of time. As one chapter of Caps life ends, another one begins as a flower child in a regular, up to date town.
After few hours reading, “The Sanctuary of School” was written by Lynda Barry, grew up in an interracial neighborhood in Seattle, Washington State. Then, I think this article was interesting to read. I love the way how she told us her past experience by using her own voice to lead us step by step get into her story, then she also shares us about her feeling and how it impacted to her future life. Plus, at the end, she argues that the government should not be cutting the school programs and art related activities. Those programs definitely do help the students and the parents as well.
Rosalia Parrado Ms. D LIT 2010.012 15 September 2016 P1 rough draft – Brockmeier Silent night “The Year of Silence” by Kevin Brockmeier, is an extremely interesting story that captures the significance of what we value in life. It tells the story about an unnamed city that begins to fall inexplicably silent. The random waves of silence were extremely short, but since they were on such an enormous scale-traffic stopping, the wind silencing, etc.
In Anita Garland’s essay “Let’s Really Reform Our Schools” the author begins by telling us that high schools in the U.S are failure. Garland argues that “the pressure to look fashionable and act cool outweighs any concern for learning.” She tells us that current safety measures like metal detectors and security guards have not be enough to beat the conflict of criminals in school. She claims that school ideas have to be reconstructed. Anita Garland tells us that the essential change to school structure should be school attendance; stop making it mandatory.
In “The Glass Castle”, Jeannette Walls details the conditions in which she and her three siblings are raised under by their parents, Rose and Rex Walls. Walt Disney had this quote that explained how he doesn 't believe in playing down to his children and that some parents attempt to hide things about the world from children. One may believe that Walt Disney’s quote about playing down to children is one that perfectly describes Rex and Rose Walls’ parenting style. They give the illusion that they portray parents who don 't believe in playing down to their children. On the contrary though as they are just abusive and horrible parents that abandon and exploit their children and disguise their horrible acts as early life lessons.
In Chapter 12 of Readings for Sociology, Garth Massey included and piece titled “The Code of the Streets,” written by Elijah Anderson. Anderson describes both a subculture and a counterculture found in inner-city neighborhoods in America. Anderson discusses “decent families,” and “street families,” he differentiates the two in in doing so he describes the so called “Code of the Streets.” This code is an exemplifies, norms, deviance, socialization, and the ideas of subcultures and countercultures.
Phoebe Internal and external In the novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, Phoebe faces internal and external conflict that change Phoebe and her life forever. First Phoebe tries to make up ways that someone forced her Mrs.Winterbottom to leave instead of realizing Mrs.Winterbottom left without telling her or any of her family. Next Phoebe finds her mom and the lunatic kissing on the bench at Mike's school. Finally Mrs.Winterbottom brings mike home and Phoebe finds out she has a half brother.
Even, though she spends every morning on school to draw and paint her teacher Mrs. LeSane never minded which she considered herself a lucky child (Barry, 1992, p.85). Instead, of judging Barry as
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
Many people who take trips to other countries use it to escape the boredom of their own life and to have fun in another country. Taking vacations can provide excitement when heading to different locales, give a person the tastes and sights of a new place, and overall provide a sense of pleasure to a tourist. However, there is an aspect of this that many tourists do not get to see. In her essay A Small Place, author Jamaica Kincaid makes this aspect very clear. Kincaid, along with many other natives of foreign islands, believes that tourists are “ugly human being[s]” who seemingly feed off the boredom and desperation of the natives of a certain place, creating a source of pleasure for themselves (Kincaid 262).
Literacy Narrative “Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents” (Rodriguez 69”). Silence. Silence is powerful. Silence, in a dramatic movie to make someone sit on the edge of their seat wondering what is about to happen. Silence, at a funeral of a loved one to grieve for the loss.
In “Find Your Beach”, a narrative essay written by Zadie Smith, the writer expresses her belief that is one is adamant enough, one can arrive at their beach - a paradise-like environment that people dream of, but is believed to be very hard to obtain. The idea of a person’s “beach” being hard to discover can be observed through Smith’s personal background, as it is almost mythical for this English writer living in Soho, Manhattan to come by a beach. What I took away from Smith’s text is the idea that when you finally arrive at your beach, “sooner or later you will be sitting on that beach wondering what comes next”. Overall, I interpreted one’s beach being defined as a person’s happiness. It is something we all have the potential to posses
Kenney Morales Prof Peters English-101 “Homelessness” Imagine you are walking in a city, and amongst the crowded street, you notice a man. He isn’t walking, just sitting down out of sight. He doesn’t make a sound. However, he stands out the most out of everyone else.
The ocean looked like an enormous pool of wonder. It was exceptionally blue that day with a slight green undertone. The surface looked as though it was covered with millions of diamonds crashing with the waves and kissing the sand. I remember the sand in between my feet, like standing on a coarse cloud that I could just seep into. The water teasing my toes and running back into hiding.