"That's Where the Heart Is"

Authors Note:This is a piece for Text Analysis of a quote from Novalee, from the Novel "Where the Heart Is."

When I child is born, new eyes enter the world. They have to figure out all their senses. They start to smell, to feel, to look, for the first time. Every mother is struck my the thought of having a baby living inside of them, that's why I picked the quote from Novalee when she acknowledged the baby. "You feel that, that little bomp, bomp, bomp. That's where he heart is."

The heart, the heart of the baby. There is another heart living inside the mother, another being. The title of the book is "Where the heart is" so now I know that that's where the author got that title. The heart of the baby, it's the whole point of the novel. Why do parents cry when they see their baby in an ultrasound? Why do the weep when they figure out that their pregnant in the first place? Because now they have someone in their possession that they can love as a child, as their own kid. I know my parents loved me . I don't only know that because they provide for me and give me food, clothes and a shelter, but they tell me.


"I love you." The three little words that can change anyone's life. A young daughter going to her first middle school dance, "I love you." Says her dad, and she tears up. A man on vacation with his girlfriend, "I love you." and he realizes, he does to. A woman at a beach staring at the waves, as she turns around she sees him on one knee, with a ring in his left had. "I love you." and then comes the wedding bells. The most important, a baby coming from his mother's whom "I love you." the mother says as the happy tears flow down her cheeks. The heart of a baby is in the soul. The baby is a whole new person than yourself. She/he won't act the same as it's fother or Father, but the parents love him. The place where you can love and what guides your decisions… "That's Where the Heart Is."