- On page 22, Aciman talks about some psychological effects of displacement like the need for things to remain the same or to rescue things. How has displacement affected you?
- In page 30, the author mentions how people like to compare but don’t necessarily like the things we compare. Why can’t he/we feel without comparing? Why can’t he/we appreciate what we have?
- In page 34, the author says that he left part of himself in the old Straus Park. Do you have memories and feelings attached to a place?
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3. I can most definitely relate to when Aciman says a part of him was left in Straus Park because there are many places that I may have went to as a child, but eventually grew out of; however, it will always have a place in my heart. There can even be restaurants that my family used to go to together, but closed down. I have memories and feelings attached to them not necessarily because it had any personal value to me but because important memories were made there.
I can relate to having memories attached to a place. I still dream of places from my childhood.
1) Displacement can be troubling for people, especially for children. When I was eight years old, my family moved to England for a year and a half. Before that I had grown up in NYC all my life. I was shocked to find out we were moving but I was excited. However upon landing something felt off. Turns out the displacement didn’t affect just me but my whole family. We enjoyed New York much more and decided to come back to NYC.
3) Before I moved into Queens at a young age, I used to live in Brooklyn. I vaguely remember the small, underground apartment that I had and how cramped it was from the inside. Although it was not the best place to live in, I couldn’t help but to feel an emotional attachment to where I was brought up.
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2. The second question was too broad to relate to the text and it didn’t relate to displacement.