Without A Map

“I want to go home, home to my adult life, with its losses carved forever in my path, with its possibilities, like unformed clouds, calling me forward.” (116)

Meredith started this new journey intending to leave her past behind and hoping for a better life. However, the struggles that the she goes through during this journey, reminds her more of her home. This makes her realize that she can never forget the mistakes that she had done and all the problems she had back home. So, she decides to stop running away from her past and starts heading towards her home. Her going back home shows how mature she is. It shows that she has the courage to makeup for the mistakes that she has done, and take up the responsibilities as an adult. She is not a coward like her father who just abandoned his family for his own happiness. Meredith is going back home and willing to try new things in her life rather than running away from it.