Childhood is something everyone cherishes. Countless fights with siblings, bike rides, swimming, laughter. Yet, the one thing that most people cherish is our home. As a child, our home ultimately feels like our "own" home; your own home. You feel like it's yours and it has always belonged to you. That was not the case for Hana Schank. Having her parents divorced at a young age, Schank feels as if her various "homes" in fact do not belong to her. With that, her only true feeling of belonging was her first home; the home she remembers most. Several years later, Schank visits her home and realizes major changes in the house. As it is now owned by someone else, Schank's memory of her childhood home is completely different from what is it now. To this, she once again feels that void of not having anything truly belong to her.
Hana Schank, the author of this article, writes a personal account of her experience revising her childhood home. She is very effective as she writes everything in first person, conveying every moment with lots of details. Writing as first person also gives the article a lot more emotion where the reader can relate to her thoughts, evoking empathy towards her. She uses very good imagery and word choice which made it easy for the readers to picture what she is thinking. Personally, I really enjoyed reading this article. It performs its job perfectly as it actually caused me to think back to my own childhood home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/when-your-childhood-home-isnt-how-you-remember-it.html?mabReward=RI%3A14&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine
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