Take me home essays

Take me home essays Take Me Home After finishing all the material introduced to me in Appalachian Literature, I started to think about some things. There seems to be some recurrent themes in all of the literature involved in this class. At first I thought that maybe I was just reflecting on the book that I had just finished and was transferring information from it into the other novels. Then I looked back through them and noted the familiarities. There were two that stuck out in my mind. First was the need for all of the main characters to return home. From Divine Rights Trip all the way to Out of the Woods, each main character had grown tired of being in Appalachia and ventured elsewhere; only to wish that they were back home. Appalachia may not be the center of the high life, or the most interesting place to be if you have lived here all of your life. However, after you have been away from Appalachia for a while, you start to long for the interconnectedness that is so familiar in the region. I can attest to this on a personal level because upon turning eighteen years of age, I joined the Army and was stationed in Germany for three years. While there I knew that I was missing something but wasnt sure what it was. I thought that I was just missing all things American. To my dismay, after finishing my tour in Germany, I was stationed at Fort Belvoir, which is in Virginia next to Washington, D.C. It was then that I realized that it was the backwoods that I was missing. I was raised in a holler in Mill Creek, which kept me wondering about the outside world. Upon leaving, I made the common mistake that most Appalachians do when they leave home, I began drinking. I dont know if it was because I was of legal drinking age and it was new to me, or if it was just simply a regionalized instinct. Whichever it may have been, I have learned from reading these selections that it is the second rec...