No Place Like Home

In this story the author talks about how he went to visit a corporate master-planned community called Green Valley. In this community, everything is the same, they are all built by the corporates to look alike. the houses are identical, and to me, the way he is describing it seems like a fake world like the Truman Show. A "city" like this is run by the corporation, and has rules, and certain things everyone has to follow. He had went to Green Valley to see how the people acted and felt living in a corporate designed and run community.

My neighborhood is a lot different from a corporate neighborhood. I was in a nice little neighborhood in Antioch, Tennessee. Everyone was friendly and were friends with each other. All of the kids in the neighborhood would play in the streets during the summer days because we lived on a dead end. All of the houses we different and because of the hills, it would be almost impossible to be the same. There are no rules that everyone has to follow, so that is different from the story, but we did have a neighborhood watch at one time to walk around the neighborhood to make sure it was safe. I still live at this house and for a while when people moved out, the neighborhood was not as friendly as it used to be, but now more people have moved in and we are back to a little neighborhood.

Home

Five memories/feelings of home:

• Christmas
• Baseball pool parties
• Spending time with family
• Happiness
• Friends

Baseball pool parties:I have played baseball since I was about five years old, and we have a pool in the back of our house. So, when I played baseball when I was five through eight, we would have pool parties at my house with the baseball team. This was mainly because my dad was a coach all of those years, and my mom was the team mom. I remember everybody swimming and having fun while music was playing in the backround. My dad would grill so there would be lots of food too. In the middle of the party, we wold all gather in my back driveway where the food was, and the coaches would hand out the trophys and awards for the year. Then we would just swim and play games until everyone went home. Those were really fun times.