Home can mean so many different things to so many different people, but once you know what home is for you, it can’t be replaced by anything.” Does his opinion of home here align with the exploration of the meaning of home within the book? What do you think Orange is trying to say about “home” in There There? Home is moveable, replaceable, and malleable. In an interview with Read it Forward, author Tommy Orange had this to say about the concept of home: “I love the word home because it feels good to say it when you feel it, and it can mean so many different things and places and people.Why do you think Orange chose to tell this story from so many different perspectives? And why were some told from a first person perspective while others were third person? Was it ever challenging to follow so many storylines before they began to converge?. Of the 12 central characters the novel follows, were there some storylines that you enjoyed or cared about more than the others? If so, what about those characters made their story stand out?.Why do you think the author opened with this prologue and included the interlude? And how did it inform your reading of the novel? Similarly, there’s a nonfiction interlude on pages 134–141.
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