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A 4 page paper which examines reasons for staying in one's homeplace as seen through Scott Russell Sanders' essay "Homeplace." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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really an option for one reason or another. Moving from ones homplace is a very personal and intricate topic that means different things to different people. Many people quickly move
from their homeplace as soon as they are old enough, while others would never really even dream of moving from a place that is part of their identity. Scott Russell
Sanders wrote an essay about this topic, titled "Homeplace." The following paper examines this essay and the words of others in determining reasons why a person would want to stay
in their homeplace rather than move. Homeplace Home means many things to many people. For some they seem to take their home with them wherever they go, holding
that place within them, feeling that to stay in one physical location is confining and oppressive. But, for people like Sanders home is almost an entity that needs the attention
of the individual. One critic notes that, "He feels that staying in one place demonstrates real devotion towards your home" (Galvez). At one point he says, "I cannot live a
grounded life without being grounded in a place" (Galvez). Interestingly enough he apparently is also arguing that those people who do not stay grounded in their homeplace are essentially
a threat to society and he argues that "devotion to a home to be the base for devotion to anything else. I believe it is important to remember that
to love your home does not mean to hate other places; your ability to recognize different cultures should not be affected by your devotion to your home place" (Galvez).
One of the examples that Sanders used is that which involves a family whose farm was all but destroyed several times by tornadoes, yet they did not move (Homeplace). In
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