The narrator starts off this section by complaining about
his plane ride back to Kentucky. As we continue to read the rest of the section
we learn about a bar that was across the Preston Street house and the
neighborhood that he grew up in. This bar had many dark moments for the
narrator being that he saw a lot of crimes taken place here. I think that the
neighborhood that the narrator grew up in was unsafe because there were
robberies, murders, prostitutes, I guess you can call it “ghetto.” You can also
tell that the narrator had an unpleasant childhood because he resorted to doing
drugs such as snorting pills, gambling in nine ball and also drinking. I find
it funny that he doesn’t know where the bar went but perhaps it got closed down
because of the crimes happening.
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
I felt the same way about the narrator childhood, because of the drugs, gambling and drinking.
ReplyDeleteI agree I feel like the narrator complained about coming to Kentucky because he got away and nobody wants to ever go back to a broken home which was essentially what he was doing like you said he was going back to the ghetto which always has a dangerous feeling
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