Blog 10

In house of the future the author recalls the event of his brother dying and how it takes a toll on him and his family. What i like about the story is that he seems to be writing from the perspective of a few people not just his opinion about whats going on. The author describes the mood and certain setting of the house mentioning how theirs always a light filling each room even in the dusk of night. One thing i didn't like was he never fully explained his brothers condition this could be at the time he was young and didn't know or maybe just didn't wanna talk about it.

You can capture an idea of the rest of the family from his descriptions. He mentions his mother became quite a heavy smoker and how his father had lost his natural light. To me by natural light i think he meant his emotional support. So you could argue the house of the future is an escape for him to leave the bad times he;s enduring right now in his life and that maybe in the future things will turn out better. Either way it seems like an escape for him from whats really going on.

What i found interesting was the way he describes the house a couple of bedrooms and 2 baths he mentions. The story was written in the 1960's about 15 years after World War 2 during this time a lot of families lived together parents and husband or bride of child in single homes or apartment complex. The 1960 is where we see an introduction to mass structures of housing built for multiple people. The house he describes is very ahead of its time for the period in history.