1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts, or characters.
Character:
Millers - A farm family in Ohio , who suffered from three tornadoes. After the first tornado, they rebuilt their house on the same spot where they got hoisted. According to the author, they were neither stupid nor crazy, but they refused to move.
Word:
Land – There are many people who move from land to land in order to search a better life. The meaning of land includes geography, population, environment and benefits. If you don’t know the land, or you are not familiar with the land, you are not going to live well in your new life.
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
In “Homeplace” by Scott Russell Sanders, the author begins his essay by introducing the Millers family from his childhood. Sanders writes, they don’t like to move because they are stubborn. According to this reason, we learn, the Millers believed that a better life creates on a land that you are familiar with. This also has pointed out in Gary Snyder’s poem that author writes later in his essay, “The reconstruction of a people and of a life in the United States depends in part on people, neighborhood by neighborhood, county by county, deciding to stick it out and make it work where they are, rather than flee”. In this essay, author also indicates the reasons for people to move from one place to another are advertising, movies, magazines, speeches and their inner voice about to search a better life. Even though the author was one of these people, he writes, “I cannot have a spiritual center without having a geographical one: I cannot live a grounded life without being grounded in a place.” This means without knowing the land, there is no better life.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
I am not sure that I can agree with the author because my personal experience. Do you agree with the author?
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I happen to agree with author that you can not call a place a home without knowing about it. My family has done research on the people who lived in our house before and what our block used to be. To speak on a personal experience,i have lived in the same house for 18 years and throughout all the problems we have had with maybe the neighborhood, we stuck it out and made it through it all, so the author does have the right idea about homeplace.
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