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Summary Of No Place Like Home By David Guterson
In David Guterson’s short essay “No Place like Home,” he visits communities like Green Valley and meets with residents to discuss the lifestyle of the average suburban family, typically four members in total, who live in the walled in, well watched, prestigious sounding, city sized western version of our local community Landfall. While the essay begins with a sunny sounding tone the reporter almost attempts to portray the community as a facade with something dark lurking in the deeper corners, he does this by phrasing certain things with a suspenseful tone in the first paragraph. David does, inevidetly reach some of his darker topics as he address crime and a certain area of politics. His point, after all though, seemed just to be to inform
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