No Place Like Home

Gutterson said that Green Valley is like a verb and a noun because all the things one has to do to be accustomed to the rules of the community. The community has a sense of strong rules and securities. "Warning, Neighborhood watch program in force. We immediately report any suspicious persons and activities to the police department."(183) These signs evident everywhere creates the aspect and feeling that the community watches you like it does it its self. The community has a set standard of living and activities already put and planned. Also the growth of the community with houses going up has to do with the verb. "Everywhere on the fringes of its 8,400 acres one finds homes going up". (183)

This piece reminds me of the "Homeplace" piece in the sense of the ways he tries to prove his point. He talks to the mayor, gaining credibility from authority. He also did his research with the statistics and facts about the growth. The reader can feel that he knows what he is talking about by backing up his information with interviews, observations, stats, and stories. With this he uses all aspects of rhetorical analysis rhetorically analyzing the community of Green Valley.

I agree with Gutterson on the aspect that suburbs are not as safe as they seem to be. My neighborhood is classified as a suburb but on many occasions I hear and witness gun shooting, robberies, and more illegal activities that one would not hope to find in a suburb. It is not the environment but the people in the environment that make it dangerous.