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…at home. Overall, my transition from small town life in Cali, Colombia to life at Florida Atlantic University is over. Transculturation has allowed me to fit in, and make friends in my new environment. Although there still is a culture clash between my home…

…The term, “Alienation” was taken from Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. Alienation is mental derangement by. An uncertainty or awkwardness of your surroundings. To the effects of Soldier’s Home, the insecurities of how the war…

…, is caged in a different way than Marin and Sally are. Esperanza is a stuck in an awful house that she will never call her home, as she says, "You have a home, Alicia, and one day you'll go there, to a town you remember, but me I never had a house, not even…

…Billy is coming home from work one day when suddenly he hears some dogs up the street fighting. He goes to check it out and finds them picking on a redbone hound. He saves the dog and cares for it through the night. It reminds him of his childhood…

…compared to the new modern homes that were in the new divisions of the town. He wanted his relationship with Norma to be simple and for them to get to know each other better and not see themselves as complete married strangers. But what Leroy believed his wife…

…to settle in this town now longs to go home. Tonder says, "I mean this: we'll be going home before long won't we?" (75). Tonder is questioning if the town there are in has been conquered. Tonder states, "Conquered and we're surrounded! (77). "Tonder already…

…, and imagines various complicated relationships in creating the life of an entire town, from its founding to the many disastrous events that force it to face up to harsh realities. The novel opens in 1974 with events of violence and horror that can’t even…

…select class, and still stubbornly maintained the image, even though she and her entire town knew the truth to be otherwise. She remained a stubborn product of her times, keeping a manservant who most likely had been with her since he had been a slave…

…A rose for Emily is an intriguing tale of a woman who gets away with murder in the post Civil War American south, due to the nostalgia in the town in which she lives. The south is depicted in many stories of Faulkner as a region where "reality and myth…

…Dear Journal, It was the 22nd day and there was still no word on how long it would be till we got out. I live in a small town called Eganville in Kansas. It is a very quiet town where nothing really happens and everyone goes about their business…