Indledning
As a child, your mother probably often told you to go outside and play. This was, and still is, considered healthy. “The nature and the fresh air is good for you”, she would say. All though, nature is many things. Nature can be a forest, the ocean etc., etc. This is something most people would agree on.
They would perhaps also agree that city life and skyscrapers are not exactly something that would fall under the same category as nature. The city is manmade and full of life, and in other words, it is culture. Some prefer nature, others prefer culture and some even prefer a mix of them. Susan Cheever focuses on this contrast in her essay “My Little Bit of Country” from the anthology Central Park published in 2012.
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Uddrag
In the essay, Susan Cheever describes her relationship with Central Park in New York. She reminisces about her childhood, where her parents took her to the Park. Generally, she describes the city and the Park as an almost magical place:” The city in those years just after the war was a romantic place, a place of dreams and the beginning of prosperity for people like my young parents” (p. 1, ll. 36-39).
Despite Susan Cheever loving the city, her parents had a whole different plan for the future.
They dreamed of a house in the suburbs with almost the cliché white-picket fence, where their family could grow bigger with peaceful and quiet surroundings. Even after their move from the city to Westchester, Susan Cheever remained her undeniable love for the city, and she felt like she was the only one:” I was the lone dissenter.
I did not want to go. I loved my urban school with its fenced-in playground perched above the East River Drive” (p. 2, ll. 90-93).
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