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What is “home”? “Home” can be defined in a variety of ways. Having a feeling of completeness is a main component that allows one to find such a special place. “Home” can be anywhere. Not only feeling complete, but also being able to express one self freely and having a feeling of belonging is usually where “home” is. The special place called “home” is a theme that is seen clearly in the two short stories “A Pair of Tickets” and “The Gentle Wholeness of Home”. Ironically my definition of “home” is similar to those mentioned in the short stories. One’s definition of “home” is always different but one common aspect is that it is where one feels complete.

“A Pair of Tickets” is a story of a Chinese woman and her father taking a trip to China. The story exemplifies a “home” not being where one lives. Despite being from San Francisco, her vision of “home” is in China. “But today I realize I’ve never really known what it means to be Chinese. I am thirty – six years old. My mother is dead and I am on a train, carrying with me her dreams of coming “home”. I am going to China.” Her father to

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My house has seen everything that has occurred in my life.

The theme of “home”, to me, is all of the things that were described between the two short stories. Those aspects indicate to her that is where she belongs. The previous quotes declare that a feeling of belonging is a common aspect seen in a definition of “home”. “In the parameter of Ha Poli’s particularity, I discovered community; in neighborly commitments, great freedom; in the humdrum of our days together, gentle wholeness. My definition of “home” is similar to those of the character in the short stories. If my house could speak, it would have endless stories to tell.

Like the previous short story, “The Gentle Wholeness of Home” also manifests the theme of “home”. And I don’t know whether it’s the prospect of seeing his aunt or if it’s because he’s back in China, but now he looks like he’s a young boy, so innocent and happy I want to button his sweater and pat his head. In “A Pair of Tickets” the father and daughter see China as being “home” because they both receive a feeling of completeness. These conditions are what lead her to finding where “home” is. My special place I call “home” is my house because this is where I feel most free. ‘When, at eighteen, I tossed myself in the sea of adventure, little did I intend at thirty, to return with the tide. Feeling comfortable, secure, and free are common aspects seen in ones own definition. ” The father and the daughter, in the story, have a feeling of excitement and anxiousness while awaiting their arrival to the special place, “home”.

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