The Search for Marvin Gardens

In "The Search for Mavin Garden," the author John McPhee is in search of the real Mavin Gardens like the one in Monopoly. He goes to Atlantic City and he goes to all the places on the board of Monopoly. It was so interesting that McPhee included actual history of how Monopoly was created. I would have never even thought that Monopoly was based on real life places and the whole economic system is crazy to me. I mean that in a good way because I have never playd Monopoly right because I am no good at math, but to know that the percentages of buying houses and property and paying for land is absolutely crazy because it is real. I liked tghe format of the story of how McPhee would go from the game to the actual location back and forth. I thought it was interesting that he had such an obession, but did not just let it be an obession he turned it into a journey to find Marvin Gardens. I love the description of the Avenues because it was so different from what I thought it was going to be. I thought that the Avenues would all be posh and expensive, but come to find out they are mostly poor and broken down.
"On Illionis Avenue, three men lean out from a second-story windows. A girl is coming down the street. She wears dungarees and a bright-red shirt, has ample breasts and a Hadendoan Afro, a black halo, two feet in diameter. Ice rattles in the glasses in the hands of the men." (Pg. 187)
I love the description, the people and to actual hear the city alive. It also amazed me the Marvin Gardens is not an actual avenue, but is instead a place that is hidden and is not actually a certain location, but a suburb and hard as it is to find it, it is hard to live there too. I find that fascinating that only the rich can live there and most the other locations are poor. I liked this story a lot it kept my attention throughout and covered a lot. Good story to read for Non Fiction!