Sunday, October 3, 2010

Track One: Fantasies of Home

After reading "Track One: Fantasies of Home," "home" means a lot today in different ways. When reading, "A Home Sweet Home Nestled Amid Junkyards," it really gave me an understanding of what people view as home today. This text had a lot of detail and feelings towards what the people in their small neighborhood call home. Today home means a place or community and surroundings where they feel safe confortable. "Home" doesn't have to be the nicest place and could be "messy" looking like described in "A Home Sweet Home Nestled Amid Junkyards." Home is the place where it just feels right.
Class and culture are major when reflecting to people's homes. For example in the reading, "A Home Sweet Home Nestled Amid Junkyards," class and culture have to do a lot with the neighborhood they call "home". They show class and culture describing the way they live and how messy their neighborhood is. This shows a sign of class and culture because it shows how no matter how messy their place seems, they don't mind and still are able to call it "home".
Some problems people face today when wanting to create a home is chosing the neighborhood where they want to live in. People today just want to live in the perfect place with the "perfect" people around them, so they have trouble finding this "perfect" place. This is just a few of the problems people face when wanting to create a home. My grandparents faced the complete opposite of this when creating their home. To them it didn't matter where or what neighborhood they lived in. They never worried about finding the "perfect" place like people today do.


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