"A Place to Hang Your Hat"

 This essay hit me kind of hard because I have a soft side for the less priveliged people. There are some people who use those shelters because they are too lazy to live life and work, but then you got some people that are really in need of help and support and i feel that the author of this essay really hit that point to the max. This shelter which was called the " Ramsey House," was a subculture, it was like a little village of exact times that you had to be there for meals. It was almost like a job with deadlines if you think about it. The character that really brought my attention to the essay was "Hope." She had a rough life growing up because when she was in school as a child she was not allowed to have black friends and she showed her mother that she was not going to listen. The poor girl's mom got a restraining order against her because she could not get over her predjudiced outrages. The essay read that she still respected her mother and they still talked but the restraining order had to be in effect for 3 years before she could see her ever again. In all, this essay showed us that there are people out there that really need help, and some people just don't want to live life by the rules. This essay kind of goes with what we have to do with our project as a whole because it contains the description of the subculture and it contains interviews and different encounters with people in the subculture. I think we can really use this as a guideline on how to do a descriptive essay on our project.