Take me home
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 wasn't sure what it was. I
I suddenly thought of something that drained me like a shell. "Life with Father: Reflections on Class Analysis. thought that I was just missing all things American. Although alcohol seems to be a problem in every region, there seems to be no other that is identified as immediately as Appalachia. (which is the main character), a hippie, travels across the nation in an attempt to get back to Appalachia. However, the term is sometimes used in a humorous way without intent to offend. Be it that they learned from the Native Americans, or be it that it was something that they accidentally happened upon, it shows a sense of resourcefulness that is also stereotypical of the Appalachian people. From the earliest days at Jamestown, the colonists up and down the seaboard looked on alcoholic beverages as essential for survival (Smiley, 13). Settlers drank spirits to prevent malaria and to speed the recovery of anyone taken ill. Ian Smiley writes: One basic role of spirits in the early days of the colonies was as medicine.
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