What We Inherit and What We Pass On

I have been in the United States for the last five years and the rest of my life I have lived in my native land Morocco. In Morocco, the sense of ownership and belonging to a community or home is one thing that is impacted in an individual at an early age, and one lives with throughout the life. One must live with the question “Why do we feel we belong to some place but not the other?” Place and identity go hand in hand with the other. Place and identity are intertwined because people come to identify with where they live and shape it and in return, they are shaped by the same environment and therefore, creating environmental autobiographies are memories we correctly hold from places and space that shape use.

Exploring the existing relationship between places cannot go without first understanding an individual’s personal history. Determining a home as a place of identity is in the field of environmental psychology which attach human to the environment. The term place identity refers to a sub-structure of individual’s self-identity and incorporates the knowledge and feelings that develop in through natural experience of the physical space and individual lives. The sense of place identity originates from many ways where place is an ideal in the provision of the sense of belonging, foster attachment, construct meaning and mediate change. The place identity of an individual is instrumental in one’s life since it plays an integral role in informing one's behavior, experience and attitude towards other places. Place identity is a flexible concept that provides a foundation for building many theories in regards human psychology.

Home comprises of the way people live, how people dress, the architectural design, and the music among other things. An example is Morocco my native home and the United States where I am today. There is a mixture of culture in the United States that I time to conform with and even if one manages to do, it is so difficult to find comfort the same way one does at home. Therefore, a home consists of culture and a mixture of customs of tradition making it difficult for one to find a place overseas to find the comfort one gets in a home. Even though home appears to be a physical structure that shelters human, it goes beyond that, and it is more of a psychological mindset of well being. In this kind of traditional dissent of relationship with the natural world, the author maintains that makes human lonely and tormented species.

Linda Hogan in her poem, Dwelling, she earn praises for the ability to vividly capture the images of nature. Despite encountering a number of criticisms, the critics were majorly focusing on the imagery and the realism portrayed in her work. Ideally, Hogan gave vivid realities on the nature of the natural world, the seasons and the effects. Truly, the author gives a picture of the world laced with a metaphor that depicts the exact feeling and reactions of being alive. In paragraph twelve, Hogan describes an abundant home that seems to sag and wither as if the home has no purpose or it lacks the tenants to occupy it. The novel reveals that dwelling is not the best place for life even though it offers the best platform for survival. Similarly, the author calls on the reader to the point of view in the description of mice’s life in the predators.

The mice live and coincide with the predators because they have the best adaptations for a living. Work cited Annison, John E.