Homeless Anna Quindlen Summary

Home has a special meaning for each person. It can have an emotional, physical, or spiritual meaning to everyone. Some people view a home as a physical structure that is a reliable place to live. While others view a home as a place of acceptance and family. Anna Quindlen worked a story on homeless people trying to find an answer to this very difficult topic. Quindlen met people who would socially be termed ‘homeless’, but Quindlen learned that maybe the conventional term does not quite cover it. A home can be a perfectly square house with a white picket fence and a golden retriever in the front yard. However, Quindlen learned that maybe the material is not the main basis of having a home. For example, Quindlen met Ann at the Port Authority Bus Terminal while doing research for her homeless paper. Quindlen questioned Ann about her situation, but Ann told Quindlen that she was wasting her time and to prove this Ann showed Quindlen pictures of a house. Ann did not see herself as alone or homeless but rather she was just passing through the station. Maybe a memory of a home is enough to not be homeless. Quindlen describes her personal home with all the things that make it
Whether or not that is on purpose does not matter, because people still do try to forget and ignore them. Between driving by people standing on street corners with signs or people sitting on the ground with a cup filled with loose change, every person sees a people like this. Maybe this is because people do not understand them, and assume that these people are homeless, have a mental illness, or they are just lazy. When in actuality their best friend or coworker could feel more homeless than those people. Understand and compassion might be the biggest plan in fighting the stereotype of homeless people as Quindlen showed through her