In ‘Notes From A Native Daughter” she describes Sacramento's location and surrounding, she doesn't quite focus on people like she did in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”. She makes it seem as if you could never see experience the “real” Sacramento if you didn't grow up there. She sees that people only go to the places everyone talks about without never really getting an idea of what it really is. She does express her feeling of how the “old” Sacramento is being effected by stating, “ lost, for better or for worse, it's character...” (173). She doesn't grab my attention as much due to her examples of outsiders depreciating the value of her home town. She did redeem herself in my eyes when she wrote,” the more comfortable the flight , the more
