One of the most important things a person can have is a sense of place. This article is explaining what it means to be homeless. Anna Quindlen explains some struggles that homeless people experience and lets us see into their lives. The purpose of this passage was to get people to understand that homeless people are simply trying to find a home and explains what a home means. Having a home doesn't mean having a place that contains certain possessions, it means a place that holds memories, has faults and is uniquely yours. Remembering or even having a picture of a house, like the women Ann who was passing through had, can symbolize home, you have all the memories of it, maybe not the things inside, but the memories are what truly make up a
