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What a Journey
by Sarah Medill

What a journey Pomeroy can portray. Mixing both survival adventure with introverted prose Naked in the Road teases with the question of why the narrator would cast off cultural norms, including dominant society, to determine what is necessary for existence. More importantly, the author forces the reader to evaluate all that being human represents; what is needed and what has been lost through the quest for the easy life. Pomeroy examines the common dismissal the average First World citizen has of the exhaustible wealth of the world; constantly questioning what resources used, labour toiled, and energy spent to form everday items such as a bottle of water. "The others are slaving out there for how many hours a week to fill their houses with this crap at the same time they're throwing it away" the narrator says of an easily fixed VCR found in the dumpster, pointing out both the wastefulness of resources and time. Along with the narrator's return to the material necessities of culture, Pomeroy also presents the need and importance of community. This book, by far, has been the best reminder that we share this earth and that everything comes at a cost.