Homecoming Analysis

Eastern United States in the Summer of 1981 Oh, the places they go. The Tillermans travel far and wide in their journey to find a home and someone to care for them, and in the end, they've learned...

Homecoming is told by an unknown narrator, and we only get to experience things from Dicey's point of view. This is actually pretty perfect for this story because it puts us totally in Dicey's...

Young Adult; Coming-of-Age; Family Drama Homecoming may be filled with tricky things for Dicey to sort out, but luckily for us, genre-wise, this story fits into categories nice and neatly. It's...

As you read through Homecoming, it's hard not to feel sorrow and empathy for the poor Tillerman kids. Their parents have both abandoned them and they don't really have anyone to turn to for hel...

Cynthia Voigt likes to keep things simple (but never stupid). Her descriptions of characters and places are pretty darn straightforward. At the mall in Peewauket, for instance, the narrator observe...

The title of this book—Homecoming—pretty much says it all: The Tillerman kids spend the entire book looking for a home to land in at the end of their long trip. But as Dicey finds out along the...

The ending of this story is pretty much the happiest thing ever. The Tillermans have spent the entire book fighting and struggling to survive while nearly every single person they meet either aband...

Since this book is written from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old girl, the language, ideas, and plot are easy enough to get. But even though Dicey is only a teenager, this doesn't mean...

Exposition Things aren't looking good for the Tillerman family, so Momma has packed some food and clothes in the middle of the night, and is taking the kids on a car ride to see her rich Aunt...

Homecoming was the first book Cynthia Voigt ever published. Talk about starting off strong. (Source.) This novel is the first in a whole series of books Cynthia Voigt wrote about the Till...

Sure, this book takes place in the mind of a thirteen-year-old girl, but she doesn't have time to worry about things like dating, so romance and such never really comes up. There are some hints...

Literary and Philosophical References "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm (1.1.11)"The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll (1.4.91)"Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1.7.7) Alb...