Badge of Honor

1. The contents of this bedroom are extremely overwhelming, however the first thing that comes to my eye is the lamp in the somewhat center of the room. It seems as though this lamp has been made out of some sort of trophy, more than likely, one this boy himself has one. Other items that draw much of my attention are the bicycle, the un-made bed, the thousands of baseball cards on the wall, and the floor. The floor by far in my opinion is the most interesting because it looks as though it is a giant mirror made of glass. This somewhat confuses me because if this room is supposed to belong to a teenage boy, why would he want a glass floor? You could never jump on it, it would be impossibly hard to keep clean, and you couldn't even ever bounce the basketball that is sitting on the bed. It is clear to anyone that can see that this boy is into sports, basketball, and that is the culture that he identifies with.

2. I would say that Osorio has one somewhat of a terrible job in the act of replicating a teenage boys room. This room is more of what a sports fan boy dreams about, not what they actually have. First of all, no teenage boy would go through the amount of time it would take to put every single one of those basketball cards up onto the wall. Teenage boys generally do not have the patience for that. No one for that matter has the patience for that. Furthermore, we move onto the glass floor, what child of any kind would want a mirror glass floor? If it were to ever break the injuries could be horrid. Not to mention if one were to slip and fall...
Secondly, whose to say that every boy's room looks like this? My room has been the same since I was 17 years old. When I changed it, I painted all the walls white and put up black fur onto two of the walls. The rest of the walls were then covered by cutouts of old magazines from Vogue and pictures of couture gowns. Not one inch of my wall was made to hold onto anything related to the NBA. Fantasy is believing that Bobby plays with trucks and Sally plays with dolls. Which is what this room shows exactly.