Where The World Began Lawrence Analysis

Those who have experienced movement from city to city, may understand the importance of coming back to their home and knowing they belong. They feel the security and warmth of their area. Also, with changing cities, you have to adjust and change the way you live and adapt with the city. Margaret Laurence’s essay, “Where The World Began,” and Brian Maracle’s essay, “Out of Touch and Loving It,” are essays that are similar to each other. In both these essays, they both talk about going home and how different their lifestyle is than the urban society.
First of all, moving away from one place to another is always a difficult process. However, coming back to that same place after many years, one can understand the sense of belonging. In Margaret Laurence’s essay, Where The World Began, she talks about the security and warmth one feels when they return to their birth home. Laurence said, “When I was eighteen, I couldn’t wait to get out of that town, away from the prairies” …show more content…
In the urban, they man accessories to support them throughout the day/night. However, in Where The World Began, they do not have the same accessories as they have in urban society. In the essay, Laurence said, “In winter, we used to hitch rides on the back of the milk sleigh,” (Laurence 210). This quote is significant because is shows how Laurence had to get ride from a sleigh to go somewhere in the winter, as in the modern society, you can get a taxi, Uber, or a bus. Another example in the essay where Laurence differed from modern society is in the summer when Laurence said, “…young men standing there, mumbling or thrusting defiantly their requests for a drink of water and a sandwich [,] if you could spare it” (210). This is an important quotation because Laurence talks about how men, working on the fields, get hungry working hard and the prairies having lesser amount of supplies than the urban