I feel like a juggler with one too many balls in the air. She points toward a pair of double doors. May I help you? asks the nurse behind the desk. I push through the ER doors and into the stark bright fluorescent world of the hospital. From the distance comes the rumble of thunder. See you soon, okay? I hate lying, especially to people I care about, but when everything’s going wrong, it’s sometimes hard to do what’s right.Īs a damp gust of wind carries the promise of rain, leaves swirl in the heavy moist air. Yeah, I’m, uh, running over to the Gerson Street stop so I can get the 104 or the 107. I’ll be there ASAP, I add as I weave through parked cars. I answer with a lie: Hey, sorry, the stupid bus hasn’t come yet.
Even before I dig it out of my pocket, I know it’s Talia and she’s going to ask why I’m not at the party. In the dark I’m jogging quickly across the hospital parking lot toward the emergency room. It’s definitely a discussion starter because it shows that homelessness is a complicated social problem that needs a better way to address it than choosing not to see it. The town has to decide what and who they are willing to support by the end of the novel.I really liked this novel and readily turned each page. She’s the only one who can understand how Dan feels. Meg and Dan become friends because Meg already lives at Dignityville because everyone in her family has a job, but all of the money goes to her father’s cancer bills.
Many people at Dignityville have jobs, but they are homeless because of many other reasons. The argument presented in the book is whether money or people are more important. Dan doesn’t really understand either.Many people in town want Dignityville to be destroyed because they feel their property will lose value.
His friends try to be supportive, but they don’t understand. Needless to say, Dan is embarrassed, but he learns that hunger and sleep can overcome embarrassment. Living with his uncle doesn’t work out, so they move to the tent city that the city has allowed for the homeless, named Dignityville. Dan discovers that they must now officially move out of their home. During the economic downtown, Dan’s parents lose their jobs and are unable to get work that would pay everything. An excellent realistic novel, No Place, follows Dan as his family becomes homeless.Dan is a great athlete and a really good pitcher who is planning on a scholarship to Rice University.
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