The past couple days in class we have discussed the American flag. After asking my parents what the flag means to them, they responded by saying that the flag represents the pride and accomplishments of this country. I agree with this statement, however now that I have been looking around for flags, I have noticed many things. I have been noticing where flags are placed and on which houses. My house does not currently have a flag up however, it is not that my family isn’t patriotic, but we just don’t have a flag up. I decided to walk around my neighborhood and try to find an idea for which houses or schools have flags up and why. First I drove down the street to Faith, Hope and Charity church/school and found no flag insight, however when I continued to drive to North Shore Country Day School, they had three flags up, two school flags flying underneath the American Flag. Since both of these schools are private teaching institutions, I think that there is a religious component showed here. As I continued to drive along the back streets of Winnetka, I found many houses with and with out flags. I noticed on the more secluded, one-way streets almost no houses had flags, however on busy, cross town streets almost every other house had a flag. I think that houses on busy streets are viewed more often so homeowners feel a need to display their pride in their country through the flag and to be socially acceptable. Flags are not only used for houses, I have seen flags everywhere this week from trophies and billboards to plates and clothing.
This flag is front and center on this house on a busy street. It is larger than most other flags on the street.
This flag is the first thing that you see in this picture. It draws you in to look more deeply at the house.
This house has old-American architecture and shows the flag front and center.
This flag is right by the front door. This shows how the family wants freinds and others to view them as patriotic.
This house represents American values with the white picket fence and flag in the front of the house.
This house has the white-wash, blue shutters look along with flowering plants in the front year that goes with the American pride from the flag. This house could maybe be on a poster for how 'perfect' America is.
This house represents American values with the white picket fence and flag in the front of the house.
3 comments:
It is really interesting that at some schools there were no flags, but at others they had 3 or 4 flags. I am curious to know how many flags New Trier has outside of it. I know there is one big flag in front of the school but this might be an interesting topic to do my american flag post on. Thanks!
I agree with Kimber, it is so interesting that there are some places that have many flags and some have none. It would be interesting to look into that to see what their reasonings are for the how many flags they put up. It is great that you took pictures of multiple houses that had flags.
So are you saying that FHC is less American because they do not have a flag up? Where as North Shore does have a flag, all though they have no religious affiliation. I think you are getting at an intriguing concept.
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