Charlene Swankie

Charlene Swankie

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    • Sylvan 2022-03-21 09:01:53

      Homeless: I'm not homeless, I just carry my home with me

      Some people interpret the "contemporary nomads" in "A Land of Nowhere" as a group of poor people forced to flee "normal life" with bereavement under economic pressure. It is not denied that there is indeed a "passive" element in the motivation of these people, but it is more of "a powerful active...

    • Kristy 2021-12-03 08:01:42

      Failed station wagon

      Modernity and the Will of Director

      From the textual point of view, the superficial story of "A Place of Nowhere" lacks a problem that seems to need to be solved. First of all, it needs to be acknowledged that all the old forms of life of the {wagon family} have appeared. All kinds of situations,...

    Nomadland quotes

    • Merle: I worked for corporate America, you know, for 20 years. My friend Bill worked for the same company. And... He had liver failure. A week before he was due to retire, HR called him in hospice and said, you know, let's talk about your retirement. And he died 10 days later, having never been able to take that sailboat that he bought out of his driveway. And he missed out on everything. Then he told me before he died, just don't waste any time, girl. Don't waste any time. So I retired as soon as I could. I didn't want my sailboat to be in the driveway when I died. So... yeah. And it's not. My sailboat is out here in the desert.

    • Fern: What's remembered, lives.