Comparing Home in Richard Fords I Must Be Going and Scott Sanders Hom

Comparing Home in Richard Fords I Must Be Going and Scott Sanders HomeplaceMost people define home as a comfortable setting which provides love and warmth. In Scott Sanders Homeplace and Richard Fords I Must Be Going the apprehension of home is defined in two different ways. Sanders believes that by moving from place to place, the meaning of home has been diminished. Sanders believes that Americas culture nudges everyone into motion (Sanders 103) and that his want to become an inhabitant rather than a drifter (103) is what sets him apart from everyone else. Ford prefers to stay on the move. His argument is lifes too short to catch up with in one place. He believes home is where you make it, entirely permanence is not a requirement. Sanders argues that in our national mythology, the worst fate is to be confine on a farm, in a village, or in some unglamorous marriage (Sanders 102). Ford is a prime example of someone who believes this myth. In all of Fords moves fro m place to place, he has been in search of something offend. He says that all of his moving is a result of longing that overtakes me like a fast car on the freeway and makes me willing to withstand a feeling of personal temporariness (Ford 109). Ford acts on his feelings without realizing that he will only be there for a short time. Sanders associates yearning for some other place as being wrong. He quotes Henry Thoreau saying, The man who is often thinking that it is better to be somewhere else than where he is excommunicates himself (104). Ford does believe staying in one place is normal, One never moves without an uneasiness that staying is the norm (110). However, Ford blames growing up in Jackson, Mississippi as his reason for wil... ...t people Rushdie mentions here. Ford is the person who roots himself in ideas because he is always looking for that special place but can never find it. Sanders would rather commit himself to one spot because he feels any one place is as good as any. Sanders gains this card based on the discoveries of Copernicus and that Earth is not the center of the universe. He believes, any point is as good as any other for observing the land (Sanders 103). Ford finds no truth in this statement as he continues to move toward someplace we badly need to go (Ford 111).Works CitedSanders, Scott Homeplace. Seeing and Writing. Donald McQuade and Christine Mcquade. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/ St. Martins, 2000. 101-104Ford, Richard I Must Be Going Seeing and Writing. Donald McQuade and Christine McQuade. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2000. 109-111