A night in the park
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A night in the ParkFirst, the picture, this is a view or a high angle shot of central park in NY in the centre of Manhattan. This scene takes place in spring or summer because of the leaves on the trees. There is a vast expend of leaves, lakes, lanes. In the foreground there is a very big building it’s a museum: Metropolitan museum. In the background rows of skyscrapers.
It’s an extract from a novel called moon Palace by Paul Auster published in 1989. Moon Palce is part of Paul Auster’s NY trilogy.
This story talks about a homeless man spend the day wondering about where he is going to sleep and ends up sleeping in Central Park NY.
There are two parts in this text :
- Line 1 to 28 : Rejecting options/ a choice of options
- Line 28 until the end : A place to sleep / Central Park
First Part :
We are not told many things about the main and only character in this passage,we have a lot of models “would”, “could”. All these models show us that we are leading with his imagination.
. We don’t know his name, his age,and his occupation. All we know is that one late afternoon he finds himself with no place to sleep. He may have financial problems, he may have lost his job, and his wife kicked him out because he cheated on her. He might be coming from another part of the United States; he might have run out of money. He might have lost everything. He is alone on the street. He has no experience, it’s the first time he is a homeless. He sort of though the matter would take care of himself. Nut now that night is approaching, he is beginning to panic of having no place to stay. Different solutions:
- stretch out on the sidewalk but he could get exposes to danger, a madman could slit his throat, he could be arrested for vagrancy.
- spend the night in a flophouse but he refuses to go to a flophouse It repulses him because he would have to breathe their smells.
- spend the night in the subway but it’s noisy, too many lights, transit cops, not let him sleep. He