Comming To Terms With Place

From the Article: "Homeplace"
by Scott Russell Sanders
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Scott Russell explaines in his passage that people don't value the places that they are in and should spend alot more time in them to absorb the art, beauty, or memories that come along with them.

1a. Answer: He strategists by using three examples to tell his point
a. He uses history as an example of immigrants coming to America and forcing the natives to learn their religion
b. He uses the views of the novelist, Salman Rushdie, who happened to be a native Indian from India. Salman brings up the ideas that, "people root themselves in ideas rather than places."
c. Scott also uses his point of view on the idea by telling his audience what he thinks of his home town ground known to him as a series of nested rings.

1b. Answer:
a. Scott defines being settled or settling as someone who has had a chance of making a durable home for themselves, their descendants, and the fellow creatures.
b. He describes as being an inhabitant as someone who ceases to migrate , pays attention to his/her environment, and respects where they are.
c. He believes that people who place themselves in places are likelier to know and care for their places than people who root themselves in ideas.

1c. Answer:
a. He uses the factors like... how they put in their strength and effort to keep up their home, how they worked hard to make rent to live in there, how they grew their own crops/gardens so others can cherish it, and how unique their home was.
b. The nature of the effectiveness is a subtle yet "straight to the point" one. He used a range of examples that give you a simplified way of bringing out his point. I can feel exactly what he is trying to say because of the emotional and true examples he gives. Both sources, coming from an Indian immigrant author and the history of Spanish conquest.
If the Spanish were to take time and understand their fellow Native Americans, they would find out how civil and happy they were believing in their own beliefs and living their own lives. And maybe they could have learned something important from the Native Americans that could help them find the same happiness.

2a. Garry Larson made the cartoon; "The Far Side," showing a man and woman driving up a road that says, "Entering the Middle" as the woman holds the map to "Nowhere." There is a comment on the bottom of the picture from one of the characters in his comic that say, "Well, this is just going from bad to worse."

a. Answer: This comment relates to Sanders's essay because if reflects on the idea he brings up about people who migrate and how unimportant the place may seem they travel in because of the time they don't put into making memories out of it.
b. Answer: Those people who are rooted or placed down in one place are more likely to KNOW it and CARE for it. Unlike the two, "un-rooted" people in the picture on the go, yet lost.
c. Answer: He was stating to the extent that just because you are on the road doesn't mean that you are always in a better place. So the sign and verse have a great link to Sanders's belief of the average "on the go American."