Homeless Quindlen Analysis

In Homeless, Quindlen relies on relatability rather than humor to try and reach out to her audience. She describes the home as a place where you keep your valuables, where you keep things that belong to you, and a place that you can call your own. She believes that the home is based on tangible items (Quindlen). So, in her essay when she states that a person is homeless, she basically means they don't have any materialistic value (Quindlen).
“Why I want a wife” uses humor and believe the home is based on activity and the traditional household, while the imagery used in “Homeless” evokes more powerful feelings and bases the home on tangible items. Both essays are from the perspective of the adult as we have seen the perspective of the child or student. Adults have certain activities to accomplish like paying …show more content…
Everyone has good memories that resemble comfort and happiness where they call home. Home serves as a basis for what to aim for, when people move to a new home they still have a similar style because their original home served as a template or a basis for what is comfortable for them. The lady that lead Rick to her campsite was comfortable being with the man, so when he was dying she wasn’t sure how to respond or help him because she had developed a state of comfort.
In the Walking Dead episode, Rick was venturing by himself and saw a woman that needed help. The lady brought Rick back to where she and someone she couldn’t live without (30 Days Without an Accident). Once they got back to her camp, she tries to kill Rick to save her “home,” which was the person that she lived with (30 Days Without an Accident). She considered her home to be with that person because he protected her the time that they have been together and she doesn’t feel she can make it without him (30 Days Without an