Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s book, The Place You Love is Gone, she describes what it is like to lose what is known as home. The chapter entitled “Adopted town”, illustrates the struggles that the author went through in her new town of New Jersey. Moving from a rural area like Akron, Ohio made it difficult to adjust to the more fast paced life in New Jersey. The chapter exposes the difficulties she undertook with the change as well as the new place she called home. She really didn’t like the apartment she lived in but then again who would with how she described it; “what it did have was peculiar gas stove, with an open grille in the inside. This, you learned somewhere around the end of October, was the heat.” She made it work somehow and got through the tough living conditions.
One quote that really stuck out to me was “Hoboken once more bled into your blood.” To me I took that is whether she wanted it to or not this was her new home and she had to grow to love it. This reminded me of my freshman year at Salem. I didn’t really like my roommates and I knew I had to kind of suck it up and deal with it just like the author did in this chapter. Salem state is now defiantly my adopted town. I live in an apartment now and I have grown to love Salem. I had to get use to a lot of things that my hometown didn’t have. One thing that sticks out the most is the driving here compared to Salem New Hampshire. People do not know how to drive around here what so ever!
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