ANT322H1 : ANT322 STUDY PACK.docx
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The rake: a few scenes from my childhood. Incident of the rake and of the school play that took place around the kitchen table. All meals were eaten in the nook (separate spot in the kitchen and in between the living room. ) There was a round glass table in the dining room that his stepfather used to break when he grew angry to show how they had forced him out of control. When the children picked up the broken glass they could easily cut them children were to understand that it was their own fault. The table was associated with the notion of blood. The house was in a new housing development built upon what had once been a cornfield and when his family moved in, there were only a few houses in the development and mud roads. His house was the developments model home and was one of the only homes with a lawn.
