You Can Go Back Home Again By Eve Tushnet

In You Can Go Back Home Again, Eve Tushnet starts off her article with a scene with her and a guy friend coming back from a party, this scene reveals the overall theme of “its perfectly fine with going back home” . The guy friend starts of by saying that he use to live in a gentrified neighborhood but he could no longer afford. The key word in his sentence is “use to” he was ashamed for going back home but Tushnet disagrees with him by saying “Good for you” and “I think that’s great”. Later on her friend turns towards her for approval, he couldn't believe that Tushnet would be accepting towards a grown man who moves back him with parents. Tushnet illustrates that moving back home isn't something to frown upon, which allows her to question
For Tushnet reason for going back home was to escape from the drinking environment that consumed her. She wanted emotional relief and financial help from the only people that she could trust, her parents. After living with her parents for six months Tushnet mind,body,and soul felt better, she was no longer in need of financial help. Tushnet challenged the American dream by depending on her parents to help with a personal problem. Going back home for any reason isn't acceptable by the American ideology. But if you have a plan of action instead of becoming a freeloader than in Tushnet opinion it is acceptable. After graduating for Florida A&M University I plan to go back home myself, I will have a job being a preschool teacher as I am going through college. Once I get my bachelor’s degree I am going to be a elementary teacher. I already know that teachers do not make that much especially in Florida or in the great South, I want to financially get on me feet before I try to do anything, living with my parents is the best bet for me. In terms of the American ideology going back home after college or at any age of life, deems that the person is labeled as “failure to