"Is Any Body Home?"

While reading Sobshack's "is any body home", I was thinking back to the first day of class when Prof. Kijowski asked the class to name all the ways in which a person could be exiled, and being exiled from one's body, never came up. Sobshack's article is a breath of fresh air. It looks at exile from a different angle, one that I feel that more of us could relate to. In "The Sun Also Rises" for example, we could not relate to the lost generration. Many class members basically felt that these alcoholics need to get there lives together. However, in Sobshacks article, in the first paragraph, Sobshack says, "How many of us walk around in the world feeling...trapped not only by but also in our pigmented, gendered, aging skin, the obesity or infirmity or flaccidness of our flesh?(45-46) Only Some people are actually exiled from a country or region, but everyone can relate to feelings of insecurity. Everyone has a body, and anyone is capable of feeling exiled from their body.