Sleeping Arrangements :: Essays Papers

sleeping Arrangements The autobiography I read was Sleeping Arrangements, the childhood memoirs of Laura (Lily) Shaine Cunningham. I chose this person simply because I had never hear of her before. Everybody was doing a intelligence on celebrities, and at first I precious to do Audrey Hepburn. I love her films I have even already read a biography on her. But many some other people were doing their biographies on her, and I realized that if I could find a word of honor by a person who has led a representative childhood I would be different. By finding a book by a person I had never heard of I thought that I would find a normal life, but this book showed me that there isnt a normal or typical childhood for anyone.Lily, as she is referred to throughout the book, is not famous. Lily was born the daughter of Larry Moore, though she isnt sure of the spelling, and Rosie Shaine. Until she was three Lily and Rosie wandered from relative to relative, sleeping under dining style tables or where ever there was room for them. Then they rented an apartment in the Jewish section of the Bronx. Lily made two friends there, Diana and Susan, and they had wild unsupervised entertainment roaming about the parks and abandoned buildings. When Lily was 6 her mother became very sickish and her Uncle Gabe comes to live with them. A couple weeks later Rosie dies in the hospital and Lilys other uncle, Len, comes to help Gabe. They move to a bigger apartment in the same building, and let Lily decorate it. The walls are painted orange and white-hot bar in two rooms pink and white stripes for another room, and for the living room a gold lam transmutable sofa. Eventually the unkies mother moves in too, and then their family is complete. Over the years Lily learns about love, life, and death, although not all of it is accurate. Lily has gone on to write many books, plays, and her closely famous work, A Place In The Country.The part of this book that actual ly interested me the most was the first one and a half chapters. Hes fighting in the war. (Pg 1) This is what Lily told people when they asked where her father was.