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HW30 My room of my own

The room that I have that I can call “my own” is my room in my Vermont house.  It is a loft type room and is a very quiet peaceful place.  When I go to Vermont it is my way of getting away so my room there is my place to get away and think about everything.  I do my best thinking there.  When I’m up there it feels like no one else is around and I sometimes just sit up there and think of everything.  When I say I think of everything I really do.  I have thought of things that cant really be answered like how did the alphabet become the alphabet? Like how do you know a would come first?  ” There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women.” (Woolf, 85) Virginia’s view of a room of ones own is to be able to think as a woman like a man and not have any distractions so you can get the whole thought out.  Virginia believes women should be able to think about everything and have an opinion on it. I think that I use my room in a way that Virginia would have wanted me to.  “Intellectual freedom depends on material things.  Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.”(Woolf, 108)  To have intellectual freedom you do not need material things anymore, you just need yourself and your space to be able to think freely of what you think is important.  My room in Vermont does just that it allows me to think freely about what I think is important and I can do it with no distractions.