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    This document discusses and compares how different authors describe their childhood homes. It notes that Danticat and Cofer have vivid memories of actually living in their childhood homes, like Danticat recalling her apartment building in New York City. In contrast, Oates and Sedaris saw their childhood homes more as houses than places they felt comfortable. The experiences children have in their homes can influence how they mature and are brought up. While the authors' childhood homes differed, they can all relate to having a space that was important to them during their development.

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    This document discusses and compares how different authors describe their childhood homes. It notes that Danticat and Cofer have vivid memories of actually living in their childhood homes, like Danticat recalling her apartment building in New York City. In contrast, Oates and Sedaris saw their childhood homes more as houses than places they felt comfortable. The experiences children have in their homes can influence how they mature and are brought up. While the authors' childhood homes differed, they can all relate to having a space that was important to them during their development.

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    This document discusses and compares how different authors describe their childhood homes. It notes that Danticat and Cofer have vivid memories of actually living in their childhood homes, like Danticat recalling her apartment building in New York City. In contrast, Oates and Sedaris saw their childhood homes more as houses than places they felt comfortable. The experiences children have in their homes can influence how they mature and are brought up. While the authors' childhood homes differed, they can all relate to having a space that was important to them during their development.

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    This document discusses and compares how different authors describe their childhood homes. It notes that Danticat and Cofer have vivid memories of actually living in their childhood homes, like Danticat recalling her apartment building in New York City. In contrast, Oates and Sedaris saw their childhood homes more as houses than places they felt comfortable. The experiences children have in their homes can influence how they mature and are brought up. While the authors' childhood homes differed, they can all relate to having a space that was important to them during their development.

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    Describing Ones Childhood House
    Jorge Andujar
    Devry University
    Professor Monaghan









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    Home is where the heart is the perfect way to describe Sedaris, Danticat,
    Oates and Cofer. Danticat, Ortiz, and Cofer have a vivid memory of their childhood
    home that is their space. In the case of Oates and Sedaris have a different
    description of their home and what they consider their space. Events that occur in
    our past that get stuck to our memory make an impact on how we are brought up.
    Home is where everything is right and no other place is more comfortable.
    Home is where the heart is an overly used quote but perfect for the topic at hand.
    The thing about home is that its nothing like a house. Its two different types of
    home one is where you live and one is where your space is. The other kind is your
    space the place where you are in your zone. Danticat said it the best when she said,
    Beneath the building ran a subway station though which rattled the D, M, and Q trains
    every fifteen minutes or so. Though there was graffiti on most of the walls of Westbury
    Court, and hills of trash piled up outside, and though the elevator wasnt always there
    when we opened the door to step inside and the heat and hot water werent always on, I
    never dreamed of leaving Westbury court until the year of the fire (Danticat pg.81).
    Cofer can relate more with Danticat than they can with Oates and Sedaris. This
    because their memory of their space and home have to do with the house they actually
    live in. A vivid example that Cofer talks about is when she says I do remember the way
    the heater pipes banged and rattled, startling all of us out of sleep until we got so used to
    the sound that we automatically shut it out or raised our voices above the racket(Cofer).
    The way she describes something that is happening inside the building it shows that her
    memories are of being in the home she lived in.

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    Oates and Sedaris have a different definition of home and where they are
    most comfortable. Oates is fascinated by the abandon homes that in his area. In the
    passage Oates goes on and gives the definition of a house: A house: a structural
    arrangement of space, geometrically laid out to provide what are called rooms, these
    divided from one another by verticals and horizontals called walls, ceilings, floors.
    The house contains the home but is not identical with it. The house antici- pates the
    home and will very likely survive it, reverting again sim- ply to house when home
    (that is, life) departs. For only where there is life can there be home (Oates pg.245).
    By this you can tell she does not consider her house her home.
    Sedaris says, "The environment you're looking for is called a psychiatric
    hospital," my father said. "Now give me the damn hat before I burn it off (Sedaris).
    You can tell by the way the father act with him he does not like it much. No one
    who gets treated that way would be happy at home. It is hard to have a space
    somewhere where you are not comfortable.
    Things that happen to us while we grow have a major impact into how we are
    brought up. Someone like Danticat grows up to be more sensitive because of her
    experience with the kids that died. Later when she is older and talks about it with her
    mother it still bothers her. The neighbors that lived by Oates had an influence in his life
    and how he had so much freedom made him not appreciate his home more. Cofers life
    in El Building changed him because he came from a single-family home in Puerto Rico.
    Everyone grows up and has something that changes them and makes them whom they
    are.
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    All the authors have a different life but can all relate. They all have their own
    space in their own way. Oates and Sedaris have a different way to look at their home.
    Danticat and Cofer are more attached with their home. The way someone is raised
    influences how they mature.


















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    References
    Cofer, Silent Dancing. (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2014.
    This Old House. (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2014.
    Edwidge Danticats Westbury Court (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2014.
    This Old House. (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2014.

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