Nakedness

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*note, my blog was separated in paragraphs, but for some strange reason, it won't post as paragraphs.
The chapter named,"HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITEITHASAREDDOORITISVERYPRETTYITISVERYPRETTYPRETTYPRETTYP" seems to be all about life, change, home and family. This chapter, chapter two, even has the words "house" and "door" in its title, as if to state "in you go and out you change." The chapter describes thier living situation. Demonstrating that the house, which they live in, has also seen change. When we think of change in materialistic things, we tend to think of the object as becoming rotten or overused. These words would not be used in a family, especially on a child. A family is constantly changing, and reshaping to form new families. This comparison is used to show how short family life is. The house may be overused, but has served as a home for various families, while the families in the house, are together for a shor time. Then leave, wanting to change, and the kids all grown up. The kids, grow up way, to fast. The, "store on the southeast corner of broadway and Thirty-fith streen in Lorai, Ohio" has been "abandoned", yet its still there, and still has a personality and its role, "It does not recede into its background of leaden sky, nor harmonize with the gray fram houses and black telephone poles around it." The store is calm, and relaxed, not in a hurry, like the people passingby "It foits itself on the eye of passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy. Visitors who drive to this tiny town wonder why it has not been torn down, while pedestrians, who are residents of the neighborhood, simply look away when they pass it." The visitors to be in such a hurry, in comparison to the house, they want change and want the old to be "torn down." At this point the author, Tony Morrison, takes us back in time, the old. We are taken back to a time when, "when the building house a pizza parlor", which often had "teen-aged boys huddled about the corner." We are placed in the lives of these teenagers, and a moment of the store's life. These teenagers are nothing like the store, they want to live life fast, and practically show off that they are "there to feel thier groins, smole cigarettes, and plan mild outrages." They smoke because they feel that it makes them appear more like an adult. The teenagers want this appearance of maturity to fill thier bodies,"The smoke from thier cigarettes they inhaled deeply, forcing it to fill thier lungs, thier hearts, thier thighs, and keep at bay the shiveriness, the energy of thier youth." These teenagers have the appearance of taking life calmly since they "moved slow", but they don't want to move slowly, they want to move fast and reach a more mature age, they, "flicked the ashes from thier cigarettes too quickly too often, and exposed themselves, to those who were interested, as novices to the habit." They are just like babies, born into a new life. We are told of other changes in the store, the hungarian baker, the real-estate office, and even the gypsies who used the store as a base. What really caught my attention were the gypsy girls. They sit at the window and "occasionally smiled, or winked, or beckoned." They were, "elaborate dresses, long sleeved and long skirt"(s). They appear to be flirting with the people who pass by. They are young, so they are almost afraid to flirt, which is why they flirt "occasionally." But like the young teenage boys, thier innocence is seen. The teenage boys innocence was seen as "novices to the habits", while the girls innocence is described as a "nakedness that stood in thier eyes." I think the personification of the house and the growth of the family is seen in the patchwork quilt. Its a mix of material, and reality of experiences. Its described as a creation for "a sense of belonging" and "a way they found each other." This piece of material, contains meomories, but other objects, seen later on, have no meaning. The furniture in the home is described as "various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference." The furniture "aged" and no one recognized it. No one cared about the furniture, therefore, thier were no memories in the furniture. This seems to describe the family. Tied together by incidencts, like a split in a sofa, yet having no meaning, yet having no pride.