This Boys Life HOME Flashcards
5 key points
Travel Erase Dwight's Safety Searching
Travel
Jack and Rosemary constantly move from place to place so they never really have a home.
Erase
Dwight wants to erase the abuse and dysfunction in order to start a new life with Rosemary so he paints the house white.
Dwights
Jack may have lived at Dwight for a long period of time but it was never the home he was seeking.
Safety
Jack is seeking a feeling of home, a place where he can live and be safe.
Searching
At the end of the memoir he is still searching indicating that perhaps he will never find the home he wants.
5 key quotes
Salmon Spirit Happy Uniform Threats White
Spirit
Dwight got the spirit that year, he made a wreath for the door and hung pine boughs all over the living room.
Happy
I was happy that night listening to them search for me. I knew they wouldn’t find me. After they went I lay there smiling in my perfect place.
Uniform
My scout uniform hanging in the closet was the only sign that I had ever lived there.
Threats
With me out of the way, there was nothing left to hold her, nothing but threats.
White
He brought home a trunkful of paint in five gallon cans. All of it was white. Eye frying white.
Salmon
They had come all the way from the ocean to spawn here, Dwight said, and then they would die. The change to salt from fresh water had turned their flesh rotten.
