You Can Go Home Again Analysis

People perceive home as a building, yet home exist anywhere they consider a safe haven. A place or even another person where individuals make memories, where they feel loved and fearless of what might happen behind the door. But, this place or person can be hard to find for some people. Many people find themselves lost and confused as to where they belong. It can be a rocky quest before one finds this certain place or person. Both “You Can Go Home Again” by Mary TallMountain and “Waiting at the Edge: Words towards Life” by Maurice Kenny talk about the writers’ quest for home. Both suffered from alcoholism, found reconnection with their fathers, and discovered that writing led them to their true home. TallMountain suffered from alcoholism during the pursuit of her true home. TallMountain said, “Living alone, I started on the road of the silent, secret drinker” (7). The quest for home did not allow her to stay in her comfort zone. She had to go through a lot of hardships to …show more content…
Kenny stated, “So where is this place I write of?... The ‘place’ is within me and all around” (45). Kenny already knew that he had a sense of home somewhere, but was not able to pin point exactly where it was. Kenny was always moving around and did not have a stationary place he can call home. This motivated Kenny to go on a journey to find this place where he can feel loved, nurtured and safe. As he was searching for his home, he then realized that home was not a place. Home was inside of him. He was his own home, not a place or a building. He was the one who loved, nurtured and protected himself. And since Kenny claimed that he was his own home, it followed him everywhere he went to. It opened his eyes to the greater world. The environment that he immerged himself to had a great impact to him as an individual. This treasure of finding his home in the range of himself helped Kenny accomplish his quest for