“The grass is always greener on the other side” is a common quote spoken by many. What most people don’t know, is the full concept of what that saying means. In “Homeplace”, Sanders explains just the opposite of the quote’s definition while preaching about the pleasures of the confines of one’s home and homeland. With numerous exemplifications, Sanders tries to stress the concept that remaining in one area throughout a person’s life makes the world a better place, and an individual more respectable.
Sanders says that “people who root themselves in places” are much more likely to “know and care for those places” than are “people who root themselves in ideas.” But are not ideas just figments of our imagination waiting to be carried out by their creator? Ideas can and will change, and it seems as if this is what Sanders is emphasizing. Perhaps Dickens, a famous author, best
Although Sanders gets the main points on the side effects of moving, he misses one of the most meaningful of all, which is family. Because of relatives being close to one another, a person wants to be around the people that love and respect them. Without family, how does one cope with the difficulties of life? How can someone get the sense of “belongingness” if they never belong to anything except their land? With this point, Sanders misses the boat entirely. He is only concerned with the physical aspects of devastation and not the emotional kind. Once finished reading, his readers will know how much physical property is wasted by moving, but they will never realize how much of their mind and memories will go with it.
With the world full of things to pull people off of their “homeplace”, Sanders assures us that the world will quickly disintegrate if humans revert back to their nomadic instincts of wandering. He tells us
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