I still remember when my family moved from our home in Maryland to Yorktown, Virginia. I remember sitting on the ground and staring at the ceiling on the last day in our Maryland house. I remember thinking that nowhere could ever be home besides our little blue house on Dolphin Court. But I was wrong. Though it wasn’t always easy, I eventually made friends and became a part of the community, and I learned an important lesson. Home wasn’t the little blue house, it was wherever my family and friends were. This same message is explored in the stories “Langston Terrance” by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little and “Home” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Both authors discuss what the idea of home means to them, and they prove that home is where the people you love are.
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In this text, the authors move from their old home to a new one in Langston Terrace. Though the speaker doesn’t want to move at first, she soon falls in love with her new community. This is shown when she writes, “Best of all, I wasn’t the only new person. Everybody was new in this new little community” (pg. 573). This quotation shows that the speaker is building relationships with people in the neighborhood. She was worried that she’d be alone and new, but because everyone is going through the same thing, she fits right in. Additionally, the author writes about how she had, “Neighbors who cared, family, and friends and a whole lot of fun. Life was good” (pg. 574). Just like the other quotation, this one shows that the speaker feels very connected to the people in her community. She has everyone she cares about there, and because of that “Life is good.” Both of these quotations prove that home is where the people you love are because they demonstrate how people can feel happy and at home even in new places when they have a community behind
In this text, the authors move from their old home to a new one in Langston Terrace. Though the speaker doesn’t want to move at first, she soon falls in love with her new community. This is shown when she writes, “Best of all, I wasn’t the only new person. Everybody was new in this new little community” (pg. 573). This quotation shows that the speaker is building relationships with people in the neighborhood. She was worried that she’d be alone and new, but because everyone is going through the same thing, she fits right in. Additionally, the author writes about how she had, “Neighbors who cared, family, and friends and a whole lot of fun. Life was good” (pg. 574). Just like the other quotation, this one shows that the speaker feels very connected to the people in her community. She has everyone she cares about there, and because of that “Life is good.” Both of these quotations prove that home is where the people you love are because they demonstrate how people can feel happy and at home even in new places when they have a community behind