Homeplace

1. He uses personal narrative as well as stories he has heard about people he knows. He also uses outside information from other people. He defines being settled as living in an idea, not necessarily living in one sole place. Being placed is living in one place for the time being, and being an inhabitant is being someone who has lived in one place for his or her entire lives. He says it is stubbornness or that they simply know the place they live well enough to not wish to move.

2. Sander’s tone is very matter of fact, but at times he is also very frustrated. Such as when he talks about the earth movers and chain saws. I would instruct the reader to use a questioning tone of voice, so as to wonder at the though of staying put. I find Sander’s tone of voice more engaging. It is less restricted and more open to the idea of many different things.

Little Store

1. She reminisces by telling the story of all the actions that took place before she made it to the grocery store and then tells us about all the things that would happen within the store. The moments she recounts express how important the store is to her childhood and how much it effected her life. The effect is showing us that there was more to the store then just the store, it was the adventure of going to the store and what it meant to her as a child. She appeals to sight and taste. She uses a chld-like diction. She describes thing in a child-like manner, such as “the Monkey Man” or “tiddly-winks”.

2. He reveals that he is tired and means business. His stance reveals that he seems to be impatient, you can imagine him tapping his fingers against the watermelon in an impatient manner. The muscles in his eyebrows are tightened as if he is concentrating on something. The harsh lighting gives him a harsh look, so it help influence the feeling of “business”.

Dispossessed

1. He defines working class as those that get paid by the hour. Middle class Americans portray the working class. These representations lack the truth of how these people live at home because someone in the middle class would not understand what it is like to live in the working class. The virtue of the working class is that race and sexuality are not important, the importance is in bettering yourself. The vice being in the working class is that you are instantly put into the same class as those that don’t have homes at all. He says that we should distinguish from working class, working poor, and working family because they all mean different things. For example, working family could mean a doctor working to get the money to get his kid to go to Harvard, but it also means the cashier who works hard to pay for medicine. It is wholly unfair to the working class.

2. The audience he is writing for is middle class America. He is trying to get those in the middle class to realize those that are invisible, aka the working class. A passage that proves this is the one talking about how the middle class is the class that shows the life of the working class, but it does not show the full story because they simply do not know what living in the working class is like. If this were changed or omitted, it would not be targeting those that are in the middle class to think more about the idea of the working class.