Susan Cheever's My Little Bit Of Country

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My Little Bit of Country It has been a parental obligation since ancient times to give your children firm knowledge about the way to survive and live in the world’s raw nature. However, parents are getting more and more protective and afraid of Mother Nature’s power, and they are therefore consequently shielding their children from learning and adapting in the nature. The American writer and mother of two, Susan Cheever, tells in this essay about her favourite place in the world, the Central Park. Which she thinks is one of the most delicious collisions of man and nature. Except, because of that she is taking a safe and secure distance to the real nature outside of her beautiful Central Park. Therefore I will in the following focus on elements such as the description of Central Park and the use of contrast in the text.…show more content…
She has orchestrated her self as first person narrator in the text and is therefore taking us by hand and guiding us through her magnificent Central Park, with access to her own mind and memories. The narrator is starting chronically with her “earliest memories of summer mornings in Central Park”(s.1, l.1-2) and is from there one going upwards through her life and memories in the park. The narrator uses a very fresh and almost lyric style, with a lot of use of adjectives and metaphors, to describe the city park. “One night the surface of the water heaved and buckled, and a turtle as big as a small car, a mossy prehistoric apparition in the middle of the city, inhaled the biggest chunk…”(S.4, L.278-283) a line like this make the reading very interesting and very living and she is because of that creating a romantic and perfect setting for the readers’ interpretation of Central
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