Austin Brooks
Rhetoric and Writing 103
Professor Romano
My Significant Spot.
Tell about a significant spot in your hometown. Explain why it is significant to you.
I was born in New Haven, Indiana but grew up in the small town of Woodburn, Indiana. Woodburn
is a pretty boring place with nothing to do. Everywhere you looked there was a cornfield that
stretched for what seemed like forever. A main road had dirt side roads that seemed to follow the
corn and wheat until the end of the world. That was home. That is where I belong.
I’ve always wanted to live in the middle of Texas because I love the weather and the
peace of mind while driving past all the ranches with the cattle and longhorns was something I
always remembered. However, my favorite spot in Woodburn, Indiana would be those dirt roads
that don’t seem to lead to anywhere. I love to slowly drive through them and admire the beauty of
it all. I love stopping on the side of the road to go sit by that tree a few hundred yards out in the
middle of the wheat field. At night there is not a more peaceful place to be. I would take a blanket
and just lay out during the summers on the side of the road and look at the stars. No one would
care to bother me because no one thought that these roads led to anything special, and they
would be correct. Those spots are significant to me because they are the only places to find
yourself. In the big city, or any city, people we are trying to impress surround us. Not alone on a
dirt road. You can scream, yell, shout, and curse; no one would hear you. You can let the
emotions roll out. No one is going to judge you. You can cry at the problems you are having and
no one is going to call you childish for it.
I don’t like being in the city because all the time people are trying to impress. If someone
got a new pair of shoes they would be strutting them down the sidewalk. If a person got a new car
they would roll down the windows and turn the music up loud to get people to notice them. If
someone has a good position in a business, you would know about it because of the clothes they
wear and you would hear them talking on the brand new IPhone or Samsung Galaxy. I like my
spot in the middle of nowhere because there is none of that. We all get proud of our possessions
and our social statuses, but in the middle of nowhere it doesn’t matter. You are one with yourself.
You have no one to impress. I would rather just be on a quiet dirt road and enjoy the world rather
than trying to be better than it. The city life changes most people, including me, but I try to retain
most of who I am by those times driving down a dirt road.