Journal Article Analysis

assignment 1-3
Journal Article Analysis


The title of my article I have chosen is You can’t go home again….or can you? I am a big believer of family being together for the holiday or any special occasions. My grandparents raised me and my older sister so I think that is why I like all my sisters and brothers around during the holidays. When I saw this title I thought it would be a good article to analyze.
This article talks about rather or not you can go home again. We have all heard the saying that “you can’t go home again.” Thomas Wolfe says that “maturity means learning that the past cannot be recovered.” I agree with that because the past is just what it is the past. We all would love to go back to the past but that is something that nobody can ever do.
Every year during the holidays the bus, train, and airports are deluged in late December by children and grandchildren returning home to visit their families. The main holiday that everyone wants to come home for is Christmas, if they don’t get to make it for no other holiday they will make sure they make it for Christmas. The article also was talking about how Christmas comes to the television. Every show if you have notice deals the holidays during that time. Whatever holiday it is that is what the show is centered around. There was a movie called This Christmas and it was a very good movie about family coming together at Christmas time and helping each over the obstacles they had in their life.
It gives us three basic ways of thinking about home in relation to Christmas. One of them was being or staying home. What this means is that instead of going anywhere you just stay at home. Things are as they should be everyone is at home. Nowadays with everything so expensive there are a lot of people doing just that stay at home with the family that is already there including friends also and just remise. The second way of thinking about home in relation to Christmas is the restoring home. This is about distress caused by an abnormal situation. Things are not quite as they should be. Something is temporarily lacking. Someone is temporarily missing. By the end, however, normality is restored. Everything would be back to normal, that something that is lacking is there and that someone that is missing has made it home. The third and final way is going or returning home. What this means is everyone coming home for Christmas, all the family meeting at one house for that big diner to sit around talk and have fun. This is something that I see a lot with college kids these days. They might not be able to get home for no other time but they make sure they can make it home for Christmas.
As for me I think that you can go home. It is nothing like going home at anytime. There is nothing like being at home with your family who loves you. I have heard someone say if “you can’t go home where else can you go.” I think that is a true statement because you always want to be able to come home. To give you something to think about what about the people that doesn’t have a home to go to. You should always be able to go home no matter what the circumstances is because at home you will find the love and the peace that you can’t find anywhere else.







References
Nathanson, P. 1993. Journal of popular culture. Issue 2, Vol. 27. Pp. 149-162.