Response To Frazier's Essay In Praise Of Margins

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Maria Guzman
Instructor Manshel
English 4a, Section 36
10 October 2015
In Praise of Margins

In Frazier’s essay, “In Praise of Margins”, Frazier stresses the importance of how finding your marginal place and doing purposeless ideas can have an impact on a person’s life. Frazier reflects back to his childhood and expresses how his marginal place was an important necessity as he was growing up. To Frazier, marginal places is “where you can try out ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on” (58). A marginal place allows you to develop and explore creations that can be seen foolish to society but scientific by nature. Frazier’s marginal stresses how it is important to find your marginal place. Frazier’s explains how the woods was his marginal space (58). The woods allowed him venture out and explore as a child. In the woods Frazier would spend much of his time with his friends and do purposeless things (57). He understands as an adult the woods was his marginal place that allowed him create memories that can not be replaceable. A …show more content…

Mora explains how she felt revived when she visited her marginal space, the museum. The museum was Mora’s “pleasure havens” (97). The museum can be educational and informative but Mora interpreted the significance of the museum in a different way. As adults people do not take their time off to do things they enjoy and by having a marginal space, it lets you vent from the pressure of adulthood. A marginal space is meant for individuals to escape from their (his/her) troubles. Mora exemplifies the importance of finding a marginal space because it strengthens the intensiveness of the human imagination through time. People don’t have much time to stop and look around and admire the beauty in this world and Mora reminds people to find that marginal space. That marginal space will allow to

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