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My Little Bit Of Country Susan Cheever

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My Little Bit of Country
Nostalgia is a feeling many people have for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. Some associates it with a good old movie they’ve seen, others associates it with something from the childhood, that is good to remembered. Just like the essay “My little bit of country” written by Susan Cheever, where she describes her own relation to the central park in New York. Susan Cheever tells the readers about her many good experiences in the central park as a child and how attached she was to the park. Nevertheless, to Cheever’s disappointment her family decides to leave central New York for an area outside New York called Westchester. However, this didn’t stop Susan Cheever’s relation to the central Park, she started to visit the city by any given chance. When she got her own children, she raised them in New York. Susan Cheever’s kids have a special feeling towards the Central Park just like Susan and even though her kids are grownups now, they still celebrate various events in Central park.
In Susan Cheever’s essay, the readers can find many contrasts, those contrasts mainly circles around the opposition between the city and the suburbs. Even Susan Cheever represents as a contrast to her parents, Susan Cheever adores New York, particularly the …show more content…

The essay’s title was inspired from something Andy Warhol once said. “I once heard Andy Warhol say that it was better to live in the city than the country because in the city he could find a little bit of country, but in the country there was no little bit of city”. This quote tells the readers that Andy Warhol obviously was a person who preferred the city rather than the country, which shares a resemblance with Susan Cheever. To include a celebrity quote, is a very clever way to highlight an opinion and to deliver the essay’s message to the

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