In this persuasive essay, I will discuss about how place and the self are related. To make an explanation to place, I will mainly focus on the point that place is related tightly with experience, using the example and quotation from Tuan’s articles. Although there are lots of good sources and examples about concept of place, I decide to choose home, a kind of special place that includes most emotion and memory of people, as representive of place.
The rationale and significance
A place, with its distinctive features, always presents to contain some characteristics that can reflect both mental pursuits and physical conditions for the residents of it. As a result, the place one lives in also shapes one’s identity. According to that, I want to describe how place will make some influence or change on people by definitely figuring out the meaning and characteristics of place.
As for an international student, I am relatively new to this new place, America, and willing to express what I felt and what I find it different from my hometown. Basically, I prefer to compare my own experience with authors in this essay in some terms like home, place, and homeland.
The tentative organization
At the beginning of my essay, I may just start from the relationship and differences between the terms “Space” and “Place”. However, the main thing through all of essay will be Place rather space by only using space to figure out the characteristics of Place. After that, I plan to describe the reason why place is such important to every people in experiential perspective.
In addition, I will provide some explanation by definition, anecdote, and comparison to prove my idea about place that place is dependent to the experience. And my main view should be the people and the things happened in a place make itself unforgettable. Moreover, I will use the examples from articles to strengthen my opinion. To be honest, I also want to cover the discussion about the home or homeland or hometown, because it is important to everyone especially people like us who, away from home, study abroad.
Furthermore, I have some inner voice about the feeling of home to share through essay. I regard home as a special kind of place and want to use it as one of example of place where we leave many memories and meet lots of people.
By the way, I agree with many authors that home is stable, warm and safe. However, I am not going to make an adversarial idea about this view, because I really agree with the words they said about home. Instead, I want to insist that home can also move, which means home is not constricted because a family makes a home. And I will also get help from the “They say I say” by using some templates to improve my construction. Finally, I will talk something about place from the extra reading I searching for.
Some opinions of mine
I realized that both place and space is very abstract, so it might not be a good way to just explain them by definition, and needs to be delivered with some much more concrete evidence like sense of human beings, experience of different people and so on. In conclusion, the point should be focused on the experiential perspective.
The rationale and significance
A place, with its distinctive features, always presents to contain some characteristics that can reflect both mental pursuits and physical conditions for the residents of it. As a result, the place one lives in also shapes one’s identity. According to that, I want to describe how place will make some influence or change on people by definitely figuring out the meaning and characteristics of place.
As for an international student, I am relatively new to this new place, America, and willing to express what I felt and what I find it different from my hometown. Basically, I prefer to compare my own experience with authors in this essay in some terms like home, place, and homeland.
The tentative organization
At the beginning of my essay, I may just start from the relationship and differences between the terms “Space” and “Place”. However, the main thing through all of essay will be Place rather space by only using space to figure out the characteristics of Place. After that, I plan to describe the reason why place is such important to every people in experiential perspective.
In addition, I will provide some explanation by definition, anecdote, and comparison to prove my idea about place that place is dependent to the experience. And my main view should be the people and the things happened in a place make itself unforgettable. Moreover, I will use the examples from articles to strengthen my opinion. To be honest, I also want to cover the discussion about the home or homeland or hometown, because it is important to everyone especially people like us who, away from home, study abroad.
Furthermore, I have some inner voice about the feeling of home to share through essay. I regard home as a special kind of place and want to use it as one of example of place where we leave many memories and meet lots of people.
By the way, I agree with many authors that home is stable, warm and safe. However, I am not going to make an adversarial idea about this view, because I really agree with the words they said about home. Instead, I want to insist that home can also move, which means home is not constricted because a family makes a home. And I will also get help from the “They say I say” by using some templates to improve my construction. Finally, I will talk something about place from the extra reading I searching for.
Some opinions of mine
I realized that both place and space is very abstract, so it might not be a good way to just explain them by definition, and needs to be delivered with some much more concrete evidence like sense of human beings, experience of different people and so on. In conclusion, the point should be focused on the experiential perspective.
Bibliography
Yifu Tuan, “The relations of space and place. In experience, the meaning of space often merges with that of place. "Space" is more abstract than "place." What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value.” Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Paperback, February 8, 2001. 3-18 (Introduction & experiential perspective) In the introduction section, Tuan provides us with some explanations about space and place by comparing the differences between them. To prove his idea, he start to relate the place with experience, stating that knowing more about it and endowing emotion make space become place. According to that, he starts to point out that we need to view place in an experiential perspective. Tuan builds the bridge between experience and place and focuses on this opinion through his entire article. I choose this article in order to help me distinguish space and place in my essay and I plan to use this idea of experiential perspective to prove my understanding of place. Patricia L. Price, “indeed, the uniqueness of place is such that no two people will have exactly the same experience of place.” Chapter 13, Place. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to cultural Geography, First Edition. Edited by Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schein, and Jamie Winders. 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 119-129. Price in this article states the meaning of place by definition way. “Place” also has an extraordinary range of metaphorical meanings. Place can also be different types, talked by human in social life. Even place can shape a person’s philosophy and his or her ethic towards the world. A place cannot be too enormous or it ceases to be a place, nor can it be too tiny. I choose this one because it really provides me some good explanations of the place in definition. Although some of them are too abstract to get into, they still draw a picture of how place “look like” for us. Yifu Tuan, “For Augustine the value of place was borrowed from the intimacy of a particular human relationship; place itself offered little outside the human bond.” Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Paperback, February 8, 2001. 136-148(Intimate experience of place) This chapter gives more detailed examples about experiences, and Tuan also maintains from a child to adult how a person knows more about a place and regards it as a treasure in his or her life. Tuan interacts the place with the word “intimate”, which means no two people will have the same impression about even the same place. In my mind, I choose this chapter to give significance to the fact that how we learn a place and how we live in this place. After that, I move the discussion from space to place and focus on it. Yifu Tuan, “Human groups nearly everywhere tend to regard their own homeland as the center of the world” Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Paperback, February 8, 2001. 149-160(Attachment to homeland) Tuan issued that home is one of most important place in all of human life. Homeland is an important type of place at the medium scale. It is a region large enough to support a people’s livelihood. Human as a mammal is connected tightly with home where we live with our families and put much emotion into them. This article uses historical evidence and quotation appropriately by combining the home and place together. I use it because I think that home is a special example of place, and I want to describe how a home influences a person. Jhumpa Lahiri, “it is generally cold, and full of rust-colored seaweed. Still, I prefer it. The waters of Rhode Island, as much a part of the state’s character if not more, as the land never asked us questions, never raised a brow” Rhode Island. Identity, A Reader for Writers, John Scenters-Zapico. Publication Date – December 2013. Paperback. Jhumpa Lahiri described her homeland Rhode Island where she grew up. Although she was an immigrant and felt really uncomfortable even hate the Rhode Island when she first came here, she, being an adult, started to regard it as her hometown and love it. It is a good example to insist that if someone lives in a place for a long time, she will undoubtedly love this place. I use this article in order to point out the significance of homeland. |