The idea of home and its importance in The Arrival, Sonora and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
A person is influenced by several cultural, material or emotional aspects that help building a personality and are part of someone’s self-definition. One of these factors can be considered home, and it has a big role in The Arrival by Shaun Tan, Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz. A close analysis to the meaning of home and what it represents to each story can be seen as a space or place which characters depart and return, each one of them with a different association to what they call home.
Several definitions are available when talking about “home”. Looking for its literal meaning, home is a place …show more content…
Home is where a person feels comfortable enough to be herself, and that’s what Ahlam thinks of Laura.
The last novel, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz, is a book with several short stories. Even though “home” is related in all of the stories, one of them has particular evidences of how home can be seen differently from the previous examples. The short story “Lindo Y Querido” describes the moments after a motorcycle accident and how a mother deals with her son death post-accident.
Concepción, or Connie, is a single mother, earlier abandoned by her husband that works as a housemaid. Always busy with work, she is surprised by the death of her son Isidro that suffered the motorcycle accident. Connie comes from a Mexican family but she is living with her son in the United States, with fake documents and a lot to know about herself. Even though she doesn’t consider herself American, even though she doesn’t understand English that well and still has some cultural barriers to go through, she loves her home and she feels home when she is with her
A person is influenced by several cultural, material or emotional aspects that help building a personality and are part of someone’s self-definition. One of these factors can be considered home, and it has a big role in The Arrival by Shaun Tan, Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz. A close analysis to the meaning of home and what it represents to each story can be seen as a space or place which characters depart and return, each one of them with a different association to what they call home.
Several definitions are available when talking about “home”. Looking for its literal meaning, home is a place …show more content…
Home is where a person feels comfortable enough to be herself, and that’s what Ahlam thinks of Laura.
The last novel, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz, is a book with several short stories. Even though “home” is related in all of the stories, one of them has particular evidences of how home can be seen differently from the previous examples. The short story “Lindo Y Querido” describes the moments after a motorcycle accident and how a mother deals with her son death post-accident.
Concepción, or Connie, is a single mother, earlier abandoned by her husband that works as a housemaid. Always busy with work, she is surprised by the death of her son Isidro that suffered the motorcycle accident. Connie comes from a Mexican family but she is living with her son in the United States, with fake documents and a lot to know about herself. Even though she doesn’t consider herself American, even though she doesn’t understand English that well and still has some cultural barriers to go through, she loves her home and she feels home when she is with her