Comparing Brown Girl Dreaming And Mountain Song

It is imperative that children find a sense of home. It can either be a place or a mindset that allows then to be free and safe or a physical place. To a child, home is a place where they are encouraged to be curious and creative. In Brown Girl Dreaming, Jackie finds her true home in her writing, from her earliest moment she can remember wanting to write. She finds control and happiness in just the simple act of writing her name. In the poem “mountain song”, Jackie says “I’ll be a writer. I’ll be able to hold on to each moment, each memory – everything” (Woodson 274). Eventually her mother and teachers begin to believe in her dream of being a writer. In these surrounding she flourishes wherever she goes, and everywhere is her home. Another