Analysis Of Homeless By Anna Quindlen

“Homeless” by Anna Quindlen is a powerful essay that goes in depth about what it means to have a true home. While Quindlen was writing a story about homeless people she met a woman named Ann. Ann was homeless and currently living in a Port Authority Bus Terminal. While Quindlen spoke with Ann about being homeless she was shown a picture of an old house. This house was once Ann’s, it used to be her home. After speaking with Ann and seeing the photograph Quindlen learned that just because some people do not have houses or a place to live doesn’t mean that they do not have a home. “Home is where the heart it” states Quindlen while explaining that a home can be anywhere if you have love.
Throughout the essay, Quindlen makes the argument that home is where the heart is and everyone should appreciate the little things in life. “I love my home with a ferocity totally out of proportion to its appearance or location. I love dumb things …show more content…
I’m not simply talking about shelter from the elements or three square meals a day or a mailing address to which the welfare people can send the check— although I know that all these are important for survival. I’m talking about a home, about precisely those kinds of feelings that have wound up in cross-stitch and French knots on samplers over the years.” In this passage, Quindlen supports her argument that a home is a feeling. She explains that home is a feeling of safety and love that everyone should experience every day. There are young children in the world today who do not know what it means to be told to go to their rooms because they have never had one. People dream of painting walls a color of their choice because that is what it means to have a home. A home is where people can be their true selves and can have feelings of love and safety surround them with all the little details that make it