The section Adopted Town in the Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home was still a little hard to understand for me. What I understood form it, was that the town in New Jersey was her home away from home when she went to college. She felt just as strongly about this place as she did about her real home. She also doesn’t like this place has been had effected by change in progress. A quote I found that supports this was found on page 82, “But of course, New Jersey sold its soul to the devil for as many cars as it could drive.” It shows that she thinks that just because technology in cars has been introduced, it has become the devil just because it is moving forward. Besides the town itself changing, she also doesn’t like the fact that she needs to keep moving from apartment to apartment. Along with this, she is annoyed that one of her roommates moved out, and moved along with her life with getting a boyfriend, as an example. I think no matter where she is, progress and change will always upset and effected by it.
Even though I don’t live in Salem or in the University it is still somewhat my adopted home. Since I spend most of my week there with school, studying or hanging with the people I know, I am there more than my own home. I sleep at my house that is all I do at my real home. I can relate to the reading because if the university or the parking changed my whole routine and I would be pretty upset about it.
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