In class, Professor Kersh posed an interesting question relating to the topics about exile, Eli Clare, and missing home. The obvious question is how does Eli Clare combine these topics into such a profound way. Clare in the beginning of his memoir, writes pages upon pages of descriptions of salmon, logging, the woods to the point I was thinking I was reading the wrong story. The purpose of this was to show Clare’s real home, not just the people and the buildings he that he was exiled from but the physical nature of it. He is unable to live in the place he wants and in the fashion he wants because of human-caused norms that create a hostile environment. Clare mourns this, because he is forced to leave a go to a place that is more “forgiving” and has more community, but it is not HOME. Clare made it clear with every word on those pages, that nature is where is heart is and if the world were different, he would be right back there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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