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HOME
"Home, then, is whatever I say it is, even if it's just…
HOME
"Home, then, is whatever I say it is, even if it's just for
today and I change my mind tomorrow"- Richard Ford
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Homemakers
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There are two definitions. Literally, a homemaker is someone who builds or designs homes. Or, a homemaker can mean a person, usually a woman, who is in charge of managing the home.
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Fun Home dives into the idea of family relationships, and gender dynamics. Alison is a young girl growing up with a father whose passion is renovating and redecorating the home. He imposes his decorative ideas on his family, and Alison endures the abuse of her father for minor issues. Her father tries to hide his sexual ordination that he is gay, while Alison is in the midst of exploring her sexual oriention.
Diary
A diary lives in home and chronicles the feelings of perosn 
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The Martian an astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and creates a home there while waiting to be rescued. The book focuses on creating a life outside of Earth, what kind of skills and intelligence it takes to build a home with very few resources.
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Anna is a lost girl trying to find her place in the world. She moved from the Caribbean to London. Her relationship with men is negative as she is a prostitute and struggles with her relatiohsips in life.. She does not have many female role models or friends and she is a perpetual outsider trying fit in. All she can secure is through her relationships with men is a temporary shelter, not a permanent home.
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Paddington is sent away from his bear family and arrives at the London train station where a human family found him and took him into their home. Paddington felt a sense of longing for protection, and he is grateful to the Brown family for taking him in. However, Paddington also has to deal with being an immigrant and with discriminatory behavior from other humans. Though Mr. Brown was uncomfortable with the thought of a stranger living in his home, he developed a love for Paddington overtime.
Stetson creates a story about a woman whose controlling husband keeps her homebound, practically trapped in her home, with the excuse that it is good for her.Stetson explores the roles of gender between men and women The room that is covered in yellow wallpaper creates a haunted theme and drives her to insanity. The husband uses the space of his home to confine his wife. The role of the husband connects to an older generation and era of a steropypical man who conrolls his wife and gives her no say.
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A group of five gay men makeover people’s lives, including through home improvements.
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The Armitages, a stereotypical wealthy suburban white family, has control over Chris after Mrs. Armitage hypnotizes him. They belong to the Order of Coagula, a cult that kidnaps young African American men and women, lobotomizes them and transplants the consciousness of a rich old white person into their body. They do all this in the privacy of their estate and they treat them like property.
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WALL-E and Eve are depicted as modern Adam and Eve as the film discusses the destructive effect of humans on earth and the role technology has for the future of establishing our homes. In connection to gender, the film takes the position that any place that is home needs a male and a female.
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“The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.”-Marie Kondō
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In the short story, “Black-eyed Women” refugees are fleeing Vietnam. Out of fear and desperation, they have to seek a new home. The narrator is haunted by her past and her brother’s ghost in her new home in the United States.
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In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, it tells a story about a group of bourgeois people who aspire to a higher social status. Men buy the property and women marry men for the property and status they hold. The home is a projection of who you are in society. Rather than a love of reading, Mrs. Bingly cares more about the ownership of and status of having the library.
Though Dorthy wanted to leave Kansas and get away from all her troubles, when she went through the experiences of being away from home, she began to find things to appreciate about her home in Kansas
Stone Animals is a short story about a family who is looking for a more spacious and peaceful home. The family, especially the older generation, are concerned about gender roles. They realize they live in a haunted home, as objects and animals come to life.
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