This Boy's Life The Home Quotes

What does it say that Jack feels most at home lying alone in a gully? Besides the fact that a "real" home isn't comforting for him, he seems to feel that being alone—but still wanted by others—is the closest thing to home for him.

This sounds a lot like the emptiness that a home is supposed to fill. Under the surface impressions and facades, there's nothing inside Dwight's home that matters.

Jack expresses his lack of a home in a pretty subtle way here. He passed through Dwight's home like a ghost and left nothing behind… not even pictures like Mrs. Taylor's dead husband.