Sonsyrea Tate once said, “You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” This statement gives light to a higher meaning of the word “home” than merely a place to live. Many people look at home as a place or a dwelling, but not many people see home as a state of mind; however, home is a state of mind. The Architizer defines home as a complex, interpretational, and unique way of organizing and understanding the space within ourselves and the way the world around us is constructed (Linda Bennett, "Architizer"). With this definition, one can assume that “home” includes heavy influences on feelings, thought, and actions. Home is an underlying theme in the movie Sweet Home Alabama. This movie is an example of literary fiction- while
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She had a wild past with many encounters with the local sheriff, and she was well known as “Felony Melanie.” She did not grow up in a very wealthy family, nor did she have a big house. She married her childhood sweetheart Jake Perry, but this relationship quickly became volatile. She moved to New York City, desperate to get out of town and start her own clothing line. Melanie changed her last name, being ashamed of her redneck roots. But all of her lies all begin to fall apart when she is to be married to the Mayor’s son, and she finds out that her presumed ex-husband is actually still her husband. Melanie must return home to resolve this issue, without disclosing information about her home that she is very ashamed of to her fiancée. When she arrives to Alabama, Melanie faces many things about her past that she had walked away from (Moritz, "Sweet home Alabama"). The meaning of “home” has a considerable influence on Melanie, and this meaning helps advance the work as a …show more content…
As she is the main character, the audience follows her throughout the movie. This provokes the audience to feel the same ways that she does. The audience is also able to relate her experiences with experiences of their own. An audience member will find that, although they might be very different from Melanie, their view of “home” could have several parallels with hers. Each person has things in their past that they are ashamed of, and this movie helps people to accept those things and be proud of their past. As the viewer watches Melanie’s view of “home” change, as on outsider, they can see how it could better themselves to do the same. The writers of this script have done a very nice job with entertaining and providing understanding- the two elements of literary fiction (Johnson, Arp, AP edition Perrine's sound and sense: an introduction to poetry, p. 57). Melanie’s meaning of “home”-while changing- helps advance a higher meaning of the work as a
She had a wild past with many encounters with the local sheriff, and she was well known as “Felony Melanie.” She did not grow up in a very wealthy family, nor did she have a big house. She married her childhood sweetheart Jake Perry, but this relationship quickly became volatile. She moved to New York City, desperate to get out of town and start her own clothing line. Melanie changed her last name, being ashamed of her redneck roots. But all of her lies all begin to fall apart when she is to be married to the Mayor’s son, and she finds out that her presumed ex-husband is actually still her husband. Melanie must return home to resolve this issue, without disclosing information about her home that she is very ashamed of to her fiancée. When she arrives to Alabama, Melanie faces many things about her past that she had walked away from (Moritz, "Sweet home Alabama"). The meaning of “home” has a considerable influence on Melanie, and this meaning helps advance the work as a …show more content…
As she is the main character, the audience follows her throughout the movie. This provokes the audience to feel the same ways that she does. The audience is also able to relate her experiences with experiences of their own. An audience member will find that, although they might be very different from Melanie, their view of “home” could have several parallels with hers. Each person has things in their past that they are ashamed of, and this movie helps people to accept those things and be proud of their past. As the viewer watches Melanie’s view of “home” change, as on outsider, they can see how it could better themselves to do the same. The writers of this script have done a very nice job with entertaining and providing understanding- the two elements of literary fiction (Johnson, Arp, AP edition Perrine's sound and sense: an introduction to poetry, p. 57). Melanie’s meaning of “home”-while changing- helps advance a higher meaning of the work as a