Poverty and Homeless People - 893 Words

Homeless â€Å"Home is where the heart is.† We have all heard this saying at least once in our lives but really, is that true? The short story â€Å"Homelessness† by Anna Quindlen discusses this question. For the author, her home is everything to her. It’s a place of certainty, stability, predictability, privacy for not only her but her family and that is all she could ask for. However while covering a story of homelessness, she meets a woman in a bus terminal and she soon gets a different outlook about what matters in a home. Ann was her name. She told Anna that She was wasting her time talking to her because she was just passing through. To prove that she was telling the truth Ann pulled out a manila envelope and brought her photographs.†¦show more content†¦As I went back for Christmas break I can remember the feeling I got when I walked into my room and even more when I lay on my bed. For once in my life I have known what is what was like to be out there on my own, in my own dorm room, doing my own things, in charge of my own life. As a child I never appreciated the value of having my own room to myself because I didn’t know what it was like to not have one. Everything was so simple back then; everything was pretty much handed to me. However as I progressed through this first year I realize that the real life is not like that at all. I need to be able to adapt to change; to be able to make my home wherever I am at. As Ann tells us at some point in life our homes stop being homes and like for me now it was just a place that I come back during breaks. Ann is in a more dramatic situation then mine but it still is the same. She had a home at one time but now she has learned to take her home with her and adapt to the change of everyday life. This story brings to mind a difficult problem. I believe it’s true when Anna tells us â€Å"we work around it, just as we walk around it when it is laying on the sidewalk or sitting in the bus terminal-the problem that is.† We all need to treat the people without homes the same way we treat each other. However the media and the world present a different perspective. They tell us that it’s ok to stereotype them.Show MoreRelatedHomelessness And Poverty : Homeless People1967 Words   |  8 Pagesgeneration, on the other hand, cannot say they have seen the development of homelessness. People who are thirty years old or younger have grown up believing that homelessness was always part of the landscape. The younger generation has come to believe that there have always been homeless people sitting on park benches. When an individual is asked what they see most in a large city like Chicago or New York, ‘homeless people’ is a common response. 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