Poem Analysis: Thomas Kings 'Borders'
Home Sweet Home
Home is defined as the place in which one lives or resides, usually with those they love. However in Thomas Kings “Borders” a family is kept from their home and loved ones because of a difference in opinion of what defines a home. In his short story of determination ad persistence King uses the duty free store and its parking lot to define the family’s home and what exactly that means to both them and the world. For simply borders surrounding you but how can one truly define some home know what is home, for it is different for everyone.
Where is home, is it in the house which we reside, the town in which we live, or simply with the people that we love? In “Borders” home is an ever-present theme that is constantly trying …show more content…
Is it the roof over head, the land on which we sleep, the people who surround us? Ever so often people and ides are put into boxes to fit definition, to fit borders yet in Kings story this idea of needing to be contained and labeled is challenged and overcome. The parking lot where the mother and son are temporarily living represents the Blackfoot population and their history of being contained to one small space between two much larger areas. For generations the narrator states that these people have been forced to choose one country or another to define them which for them is impossible because as far back as they can remember they have been defined by nature, not border guards with their [feet set wide apart and holsters pitching up and down] or by flagpoles. (pg.257) Since their arrival so long ago their borders of home have been the rivers and mountain ranges, their home has been defined by how far they could go not how far till they were stopped. Although the mother and son are told to define themselves by one country or another they object and instead end up with luxuries like no one else, they receive food and water for free, have a place to sleep and are sold everything duty free. Therefore instead of following the rules of each country they remain in the middle able to do what they please while out of reach of wither government. After all being told to pick a home did nothing but give this family the opportunity to make a whole new one in a simple patch of
Home is defined as the place in which one lives or resides, usually with those they love. However in Thomas Kings “Borders” a family is kept from their home and loved ones because of a difference in opinion of what defines a home. In his short story of determination ad persistence King uses the duty free store and its parking lot to define the family’s home and what exactly that means to both them and the world. For simply borders surrounding you but how can one truly define some home know what is home, for it is different for everyone.
Where is home, is it in the house which we reside, the town in which we live, or simply with the people that we love? In “Borders” home is an ever-present theme that is constantly trying …show more content…
Is it the roof over head, the land on which we sleep, the people who surround us? Ever so often people and ides are put into boxes to fit definition, to fit borders yet in Kings story this idea of needing to be contained and labeled is challenged and overcome. The parking lot where the mother and son are temporarily living represents the Blackfoot population and their history of being contained to one small space between two much larger areas. For generations the narrator states that these people have been forced to choose one country or another to define them which for them is impossible because as far back as they can remember they have been defined by nature, not border guards with their [feet set wide apart and holsters pitching up and down] or by flagpoles. (pg.257) Since their arrival so long ago their borders of home have been the rivers and mountain ranges, their home has been defined by how far they could go not how far till they were stopped. Although the mother and son are told to define themselves by one country or another they object and instead end up with luxuries like no one else, they receive food and water for free, have a place to sleep and are sold everything duty free. Therefore instead of following the rules of each country they remain in the middle able to do what they please while out of reach of wither government. After all being told to pick a home did nothing but give this family the opportunity to make a whole new one in a simple patch of