My Little Bit

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My Little Bit of Country ESSAY Surrounded by tall buildings and lots of people or the country enveloped in nature and a smaller society. What would you choose? Which place is the best to live and grow up in? Some people would argue for the small, nice and quiet country, others would argue for the big and populated city. You can’t say which is the best. Because both the city and the country are two lifestyles that are quite opposite to each other, and both have their own flaws. In Susan Cheever’s essay “My Little Bit of Country”, Susan discus her view of living on the country and in the city. The story starts with the protagonists’ first memory, where she remembers her father coming home after fighting World War second. Furthermore I must assume that it ends in the present time, which means that we have a timeline from the mid forty’s till 2012, chronological told. The narrator is a 1rst person narrator, which gives us access to her mind. Susan Cheever tells how she much preferred the life of the city. During her childhood from when she was a baby to when she was a young child, she lived in New York. Later her parents, her sibling and herself, moved to the suburbs, which she was very uncomfortable with. When she later grew up, and got her own family, she moved back to New York. She raised her children in the city, because she felt better and comfortable in the city. Susan describes how the differences are between the city and the country is. She describes them as two completely different opposite things, treating them as definite contrasts. The city life is controlled, safe and clean, whereas the country-life is wild, dangerous and dirty. She uses a lot of examples, like ice-skating and swimming. In the city you have safe ice-skating rinks, where there are no chance of going through the ice, and the pools are clean disinfected every day. On the country
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