![]() ![]() ![]() In many ways, “home” seems to lack something that separates her from complete fulfilment and that continues to dog her throughout her personal journey.Įvidently, Eilis’s journey to America takes her into unexplored territory and her new home in Brooklyn is plagued by a desperate feeling of homesickness and nostalgia, so that she never feels completely “solid” there either. Even before her fate is decided, by Father Flood, an Irish priest who has emigrated to the United States, and by her sister, Rose and mother, Mrs Lacey, Eilis is aware that something is not quite right in her home town, Enniscorthy. Ambiguously, home represents a place of divided and uncertain loyalties. In Brooklyn, Colm Toibin’s main protagonist, Eilis Lacey, struggles with homesickness as she relives the typically Irish immigrant experience in America during the 1950s. Despite her desire to resettle, Eilis’s relationship with “home” shifts and changes as she struggles to come to terms with the consequences of living in two places – both physically and emotionally. Home: a place of conflicting emotions by Dr Jennifer Minter Essays Made Easy for English Language (VCE Units 3-4).“Contemporary” language examples and commentators. ![]() Argument Language Analysis Exams Yr 12 VCAA.Arguments and Persuasive Language (2023). ![]()
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