Date

4-17-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

When I first decided to do this thesis project, I wanted to focus on travel, telling stories of my time living and traveling abroad. I wanted to write real accounts of my travels to show how ugly and difficult it could be sometimes, in hopes of showing a less romanticized and more realistic account of traveling. However, after I began writing I discovered another theme present. I found different meanings of home that I’ve held whilst traveling become a big part of the project. As I’ve learned traveling affects my own definition of home, I found it important to include my idea of home when I was younger through the home life I had then to show the differences between then and now. This was something I had absolutely no intention of including in this project originally. The four nonfiction essays in this collection serve to go against the romanticized narrative that travel is easy and a means of escape and connect the definition of home with travel.

Department

English

Thesis Comittee

Dr. Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Thesis Advisor

Dr. Benjamin Carson, Committee Member

Dr. Joyce Rain Anderson, Committee Member

Copyright and Permissions

Original document was submitted as an Honors Program requirement. Copyright is held by the author.

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