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Review Of My True South: Why I Decided To Return Home By Jesmyn Ward

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This is a great question that I will answer. How does place shape the individual? Well, I believe that place can have a huge impact on people and how they later grow up. I’ve heard that in the place where you grow up you can make very strong connections and relationships with that place and it becomes a part of your identity. I believe that it’s true because I love my home and I’ve lived there my whole life and have grown to love all my neighbors in my community and I feel like my home has had a huge impact on my future and the way I grew up. Some people that grow up in hard situations and homes can later grow up turning out not very well, it all depends on how they deal with it. Throughout the stories “My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home - Jesmyn Ward” , “Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of the South - Nancy Bostick De Saussure”, and “Midnight Zone - Lauren Groff” they will tell you about what certain places and time periods can do to someone. In the story “My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home” by Jesmyn Ward, it talks about how in Mississippi it was genuinely hard for the black people to live and all the things they went through while living there during that time period. Over time the people in her community had started to come …show more content…

It all starts with Miss Morse telling her about how she got there and how it was her first time being with black people. She said “At first I was afraid, being the only white person on board, but as I remembered that it was your father's plan, I knew it must be safe, and gave myself up to the enjoyment of the scene.” So even though she hasn’t had that much experience being around black people she still gave it a try being around

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