Summary Of Homeless By Quindlen

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The story “homeless” relates two different aspects, home and identity. The story starts when the author met Ann, a homeless woman. The author identifies the woman as “somebody” for she had a house in which it, home, signifies the identity of someone. For the author, she views home as a place of comfort, privacy and security. The story describes how the society’s perspective on home gradually changes for during the old days, home is where a person live, work and even die, while nowadays, the society defines home as a temporary living place until someone could or need to move to other places. Quindlen also states that there are a few reasons the homeless people avoid themselves from going to shelters, for some who had lived in the place despise