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2. How is place defined?  How does narrative shape our understanding and experiences in place?  What are the implications as “undifferentiated space becomes place” (Cresswell 8)?  How is landscape and place shaped by fiction and visual arts?  What does it mean to “inhabit” place?

3. What does a study of place in America reveal? About what or whom?

According to the book "place is a word that seems to speak for itself."  Place can be geographical or a memory or an experience. It can be a house or a room or just where you are. Undifferentiated space becomes place when we begin to associate a space with experience or experiences. We make landscape from things we hear and things we see in media and art and from talking with people. To inhabit place we make that space our own. We begin to associate certain things in the place to represent who we are as a person. The book uses the example of a student decorating a dorm room. 

The study of place in america reveals that peoples places in america different to many people. Each person might see there place as something different. America is also unique to because of how large it is and because of how many different cultures inhabit it. Because of this many people will see place differently and therefore view America in a different light.