...A lot of people decide to move to the countryside nowadays. However, there are still many people who prefer staying in the city and say that they couldn't live anywhere else. So which place is better to live? Let's analyse both of them. Living in a big city has a lot of advantages. First, there are many things to do in your free time: there are a lot of theatres, concerts. Second, there are shopping centres where you can buy anything you need. Third, there are a lot of working opportunities in a city: many big international companies have their offices or factories in the cities, so it is much easier to find a job in a big city. Forth, the public transport is adequate to go to work or study everyday, which makes life easier. On the other hand, there are some disadvantages of living in a big city. First, cities are very crowded. The traffic may be heavy and city's car parks are always full. Sometimes it may take hours to get from a given place to another! Second, the lack of safety: the crime rates in cities tend to be always higher. Third, people in big cities are always in a hurry and live a stressful life that may lead to many illnesses. And last, cities are always more polluted than the countryside. Life in the countryside, nevertheless, is more peaceful. Life is slower and less stressful. There are no hurries and the traffic conditions are better. A lot of places can be reached on foot. Besides, there are a lot of breathtaking landscapes, forests, lakes and...
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...think that the city life is the ideal place to live, others think the suburbs are. The short story “My Little Bit of Country” by Susan Cheever deals with the life of the protagonist, who is Susan herself, from early age to adulthood. The story depicts Cheever’s life in New York City and shows the eternal love she has for the city life, being the exact opposite of her view on the country life. Central to story are the themes growing-up and urban living vs. suburban living. To comment on the short story and on its main points it is obvious that Cheever tries to convince her readers to obtain the same opinion as she has regarding whether to live in the city or in the country. Cheever attempts to accomplish this through a description of the spectacular city and park by using numerous adjectives and metaphors to paint beautiful and romantic pictures for the readers: “… but its incidental beauty has often taken my breath away” (p. 9). Feeling comfortable and happy living in the country or in the city is different from family to family or even from individual to individual. All humans are unique, which makes it impossible for everyone to feel at home in either of the two mentioned places to live. As Cheever mentions in her story she had had her first memories with her dad in the city. These early memories about her trip to the zoo where she was always greeted by her good friend Joe might have been the cause of her close connection and her sense of safety to the city. Later when her...
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...Article RebuttlePage 1 Article Rebuttle: Country or City Life University of Phoenix BCOM/275 Mr. Luna August 20, 2014 City Life or Country LifePage 2 Although it may seem to many that traffic jams on every highway in the area and people are everywhere no matter if you go to the post office or take a walk down the street is a normal part of life, but thats not always the case if you havent lived on the other side. Lots of people who grow up in the country living in small towns know that the tractor holding up traffic on the side of highway twenty one in Ironton, Missouri is the only traffic jam that they are going to be in that day and probably the rest of the month depending on what season it is and if the hay is already cut. When a person is taken from his normal life, and put into an environment that is totally different than the way they were raised, it can be very tramatizing at times. Usually people will compare the contrast of city versus country life as being taken from the jungle if you were a wild animal and put into a zoo. Country living is extremely laid back and life itself seems to go a little slower than living in the city. This is because you are raised in a way that is less stressful in all aspects of life starting from childhood and working its way into adulthood. When you are being raised in the country you are taught to be a well deciplined child and are taught to respect your elders whether it be at church, school, or even at the...
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...My Little Bit of Country – by Susan Cheever My little bit of country is an essay from the anthology, Central Park. The author of the essay is the American writer, Susan Cheever. The topics that the essay deals with is the country-life and the city-life. The angle of approach takes place when the main character talks about the ancient yak, which lived in a foreign place in which he originally does not come from. She is using the yak example to amplify her situation when she is forced to go living in the country with her parents. She felt that she did not belong to the country and she is longing after her previous life in the city in which she finds familiar and safe. The city and Central Park illustrates the beauty and the good things while the country portraits the ugly and not so welcoming environment as a contrast. Beauty vs ugly. Good vs bad. Everything vs nothing. She is describing the city as a romantic place of dreams and prosperity where everything is possible and by the hand, you just have to grab the opportunities the city and the environment is giving you. Her father was an artist and the short stories he wrote was the beginning of his masterful portraits of the city and the suburbs. It was stories about long lost world of New York City, when it was filled with river light and when everyone wore a hat. Her parents dreams about living in the post war American chimera in a house with a white-picked fence, instead of living in their rented two-bedroom apartment. Central...
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...Comparative Essay: Country or City Living Try to picture in your mind the perfect place to live. Did you visualize living in a fast paced or laid back place? How about a place where you know and have a relationship with your neighbors? How about having the basic conveniences and amenities close by? By thinking on these questions you have categorized your choices into two categories: country or city living. Which would you choose? Many believe that city living has more benefits than country living, however, there are some that believe that country living is a real life dream. In order to make a firm decision, a comparison between the two types of living should be conducted as living in either location has both advantages and disadvantages. Some of the similar factors to consider for living in the country or living in the city are the routine, the people’s characteristics, and the life conditions. On the other hand, some of the differences to consider in living in the country compared to living in the city are the cost of living, the relationship with neighbors the basic conveniences and luxury amenities. Living in the country and living in the city share some similarities such as a routine, the people’s characteristics, and life conditions. In living in either place, a routine is developed that usually revolves around the work life. For persons in the city, they normally wake up very early at the same time every morning for work and return home in the later afternoon...
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...Country life Where is the most ideal living? if you have two choices: living in city or in country, which one will you choose? I think the most important decision to a happy life is where you choose to spend the rest of your life and how you want to live. In the country, you can have as many pets as you want, and you can play your music as loud as you want without the neighbors complaining. The country life is quiet and peace, country living look like a nice dream: hearing natural music, seeing sights, and planting trees.. However, big city life is more appealing for the younger generation. Many young people would be bored to tears if they had to live in a country setting. The big city is full of exciting activities for the younger crowd, such as a variety of clubs, pubs, concerts, football games, and hanging out with their friends at the local mall. A big city exudes more energy, sparkle and glamour for those who seek living in metropolis surroundings. I also think country life is more healthy. There are less pollution, fewer factories and less noise in the country. Trees are more abundant in the country, which means cleaner air to breathe. You can sleep better at night without all the noises of the city. There is far less crime in the country, making it a safer place to live. country people look younger than their ages and longer life because they enjoy relax living, fresh food and fresh air, In contrast, people in city are able to look like young by doctors, and have...
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...Australians are commonly perceived as country people who battle the elements and experience great hardships. Two poems that depict the Australian outback and country lifestyle are “Clancy of the Overflow” by Banjo Paterson and “The Shearers Wife” by Louis Esson, which portray alternate views. The poem “Clancy of the Overflow” glorifies the country lifestyle while diminishing the city way of life. On the other hand, “The Shearers Wife” depicts country life as lonely while also illustrating the Australian women as hard working. Both poets utilise a range of language choices and poetic techniques to shape the audience’s perception of the Australian outback and the country lifestyle. “Clancy of the Overflow” represents the Australian country lifestyle...
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...Country VS City Living Although I have lived both in the city and the country; my experiences have been quite different .Both have a certain appeal to people of all ages. We tend to spend our time in the place that suites our style, Country vs City living. Environmental conditions differ greatly from city to country. The absence of green landscape will be lacking in the city. Other colors will catch your eye. Bricks and concrete will be the main theme of the places there. Buildings will be harder and bigger, opposed to the smaller country houses and barns. The air of the city will also smell of car exhaust, as well as fast food shops. These things make you remember those spaces. Although the country will smell differently as when a meadow is being cut, and there is the scent of fresh cut grass. Horse manure odors will fill the air to open up your sinuses and make your eyes water. Also the night sky will have a lake of stars in the city because of light pollution. However the country night sky is darker and you will see more stars. There are many different environmental conditions to separate the two. Living in the city will be different from the country. City life is faster paced and noisy whereas country life is slower. There will be changes in shopping and eating conditions as well as housing .The city is closer together, so it is faster to get around. The country is more spread out; in fact, and it takes longer to get around. Although...
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..."My Little Bit of Country" by Susan Cheever What would you prefer; The relaxing life of the suburbs or the wild diversity of the urban life? Some would prefer one while the other would feel inexplicably horrible in choosing the other. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay by Susan Cheever, this essay starts from when she was a little girl and ends in 2012 which is when she wrote the essay. In the beginning little Susan Cheever was living in New York and was pretty happy with her life there, but that wasn’t enough for the family, they wanted the American Dream with the white picket fence and a place in the “real” country, as Susan Cheever puts it. This did not please her and she really disliked the suburbs, that when she got older she would go to New York as much as possible. In the end she moves to New York again and is happy and forever satisfied with the urban life. The story is basically written with contrasts, contrasts and more contrasts. The most obvious one is the suburb life vs. the urban life; country vs. city. She very much dislikes the country life, it being a step down from the city: “Why would I want to scrape around the rough, dangerous ice of a country lake when I could glide around the smooth ice at the Wollman Ring and pause for a hot chocolate when my toes and fingers get too cold?” here she compares the natural procedure of the lake turning to ice with a manmade ice rink specifically made to be the most safe way to skate. Some would say that the country would have something special about it...
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...My Little Bit of Country In the first clause, I will introduce the story “My Little Bit of Country”. The Authors name is Susan Cheever, she was an American writer who was born in 1943, who wrote the essay. She is the daughter of the famous novelist and short story writer John Cheever. The essay is from the selection called “Central Park”, which was released in 2012. The writer has written as a first person narrator through out the text. We met our main character Susan Cheever when she was very young. Her father has just returned home from the WW2. We are told by Susan that her family’s almost commonplace visits to Central Park Zoo and Central Park. Susan’s father started writing and because of the big success he had and the fact that they as parents wanted one more child, the family moved to the one of the suburbs of New York City. Susan was not very enamored of it, she loved to be in the enormous city, to skate on the ice rink and to visit the yak in Central Park Zoo. After they had moved, she eventually moved back the New York City and became an adult who raised her own kids, in the way that she wanted to be raised. In this analysis, we will focus on the writer’s use of contrast. We will also analyze the central- themes, which are explored in the text, and we will in the end put some comments on the title of the essay. In this paragraph, we will comment on the title. “My Little Bit of Country” was the title of the essay. The title was inspired by Andy Warhol, who Susan...
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...The difference between a city in the U.S. and a village in a third world country are night and day. Many of the advancements that we carry here in the U.S. lack in third world villages. For example, advancements of technology, luxuries, environment, and even day to day social life. One might be lead to believe that the city life is better than village life. However there are so many advantages and disadvantages in city life and village life. City life is more comfortable and offer more opportunities for people to progress. There are a lot of facilities for people in the city and they have more opportunities to establish monetary funds for themselves. Children living in the city can get a higher education, because there are better overall schools in a city as oppose to a village. When a person becomes sick there are both public and private hospitals to recieve treatment from. People in the city have better transport facilities compared to a village. In the city there is electricity, highway, communication, telecommunication, plumbing and sewage. All of these things make a comfortable and enjoyable life for people living in the city. Although living in the city has many advantages there are a few disadvantages as well. Living in the city can be very costly and overpopulated, which can leave you feeling clustered. The environment is polluted with dust, smoke, garbage and dioxide gases from factories. The crime rate is substantial as oppose to the village therefore, many thefts...
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...[pic] God made the country and man made the town. (Cowper) Everything in this world has its own merits and demerits. Nothing is perfect in this world. Perfection lies only in God. So, town life and country life have also their own advantages and disadvantages. Things, pleasures, scenes entertainments and recreations which one finds in cities are not available in country side and vice versa. City life has its pleasures and pains, its comforts and discomforts and its charms and horrors. To these who live in villages and towns, city life has special appeal, and they desire to visit a city repeatedly. And likewise, city dwellers want to enjoy the simple pleasures if a village away from maddening complexities of city life. For those who live in the rural areas and small towns, life in a big city in surely very attractive. They are happily surprised and sometime as stupefied to find high-rise, multi-storied buildings on the two sides of broad and busy roads. The shape, size and colors of the building structures, whether they are trade centers plazas, government or private offices or residences of rich people are all enchantingly beautiful and impressive. Surely, the fashionable, comparatively newly-built areas of the big cities in other and our countries are tastefully constructed, attentively decorated and carefully maintained. To look at the sky-kissing buildings one feels like being in a city built at the order of Aladdin subbing his magic lamp. If you would know and...
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...LIVING IS BETTER IN THE COUNTRY HOOK: Do people typically prefer to live in the country rather than in the city? William Penn once said, “The country life is to be preferred; for there we see the works of God; but in cities, we see little else but the works of men.” INTRODUCE THE ISSUE: Even after considering all of the negative aspects of living in the city, such as the crime rate, pollution, traffic, and the noise level, city life still offers a lot of daily conveniences. Some conveniences that city life offers are public transportation, a variety of stores, and restaurants, and lots of places to live and work. However; people who have lived in both the city and the country, know that country living is better than city living. STATE POSITION CLEARLY: The environment of a rural life style, the peace, and quiet, the beauty of nature, and the calming effect that it has on one’s mind and body, is the reason that people prefer living in the country rather than in the city. TRANSITION TO ESSAY BODY (THESIS): People prefer to live in the country because there are many advantages, and simple pleasures that can only be attained by living there. PRO REASON 1: There are no traffic jams in the country, and people need not travel to experience the wonders that nature has to offer. SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: There is no traffic in the country, so typically, the sound of passing cars, and trucks is not heard as frequent as in the city. The load noise of the sirens from fire trucks,...
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...My Little Bit of Country Pamela Prehn and Laura Rexen 3.K My Little Bit of Country is a short story written by Susan Cheever. The essay was published in the anthology Central Park that was published in 2012. Humans are different, there is no doubt about that. It is amazing how every single human-being on this planet is unique, it will always be something that amazes us. You can never figure a person out; the human mind is simply astonishing. The human mind will always behold a surprise. However, even though humans are difficult to figure out, we would say that there are mainly two different types of people in this world: Country-folk and city-folk. Susan Cheever is as mentioned earlier the writer of the essay My Little Bit of Country, and in this essay she reveals to us the thoughts and minds of a ‘city-person’. The story follows a chronological structure, and Susan Cheever starts the story with mentioning how she spent her summer mornings as a child in beautiful Central Park in company of her dad: “My earliest memories are of summer mornings in Central Park with my father” (Page: 1). When reading this essay, it becomes clear to see that Susan Cheever considers herself different from her family members: “I too often felt, even then at the age of three or four, that I had come from another exotic foreign place to live with my disappointingly ordinary family” (Page: 1, L.25) as this quote shows, she describes her family as being painfully ordinary, which clearly...
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...the city life and the country life, and the contrast is based on self experience I used to be. The city life: busy, pressure, hard work, achievement, convenience, shopping, movie, entertainment, the air pollution, the busy mass transmission system, my parents, my siblings, coldness between people, everything is complex The country life: my old and stubborn grandpa, my tender grandma, the nostalgia, the tangerine garden, the old house, living on the mountain, fresh air, comfortable atmosphere, the life without worry, get up early, quiet, seldom going to the town, no many shopping store, do not have to worry about the relationship between people, simple food for every meal Possible idea for contrasting: complex relationship to people versus simple relationship to people, the convenience life versus isolated life on the mountain, the irregular and regular work and rest life Text: Everyone has her own image to the city life and the country life; therefore I have my own idea to these two kinds of life style. To me the city life is quite different to the country life, and the comparison sources are my life experience and my memory. I lived with my grand parents in the country in my childhood; after I finished my first year in the elementary school, I came to live with my parents in the Taipei County. From then on, I go back to my grandparents’ old house when it is summer or winter vacation. Under this situation, the differences between the city life and the country life...
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