Rhode Island |
“After we moved into that house, something changed; whether it was my growing older or the place itself, I was aware that the world immediately outside our door, wit its red-flagged mailboxes and children’s bicycles left overnight on well-seeded grass, was alien to my parents.” | The source of this sentence is a short story called Rhode Island written by Lahiri Jhumpa born in London with Bengali-Indian heritage. It describes her experience at Rhode Island which Lahiri regards as her home. Throughout the story, she explained how the library and elsewhere in Rhode Island are meaningful to her. Even when she went back to visit Rhode Island after she moved to New York after growing up, everything in Rhode Island reminded her those old days. The selection above describes the change in Lahiri’s feeling after she and her family moved to another town in Rhode Island. It shows a slight change (in this case, one mile) of location of the “place” can alter the relationship between place and its people, in this case, Lahiri’s unfamiliarity to the new place. By incorporating this selection into the paper, I can show an example to explain the abstract ideas of “place” presented by other selections written by Tuan and Price. |
Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Rhode Island." Identity: A Reader for Writers. Ed. John Scenters. 1st ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2013. 101. Print.