The town was filled with people that did not strive for anything and Frank wanted more. His parents were helpless to care about anyone or anything.

Growing up Frank only had his sister and friends that kept him sane. Frank describes Lotus, Georgia as the worst place in the world and that it is worse than any battlefield (Morrison 103). In chapter seven of Home, Frank describes his childhood. The man asks Fran “How’d you get there?” (Morrison 15) The only thing he can think of why he was placed there was because maybe he became violent. As the man is helping Frank with food and shoes he cannot remember why he was put in a mental hospital. Frank arrives at the AME Zion Church were a poor African American clergy helps him. Frank manages to get out of the mental hospital before sunrise. This is where Toni Morrison first introduces that Frank has post-traumatic stress Disorder. As he’s planning the escape in his head everything he thinks about reminds him of things and it brings pain. To escape the hospital, he first must plan on how he will get out of the high security hospital. In chapter two of Home, Frank is in a mental hospital and must escape due to him receiving a letter that Cee is in trouble in their home town in Georgia. While Frank is away he receives news that Cee is in danger. Cee is left alone and must learn how to survive in the town without Frank her big brother being there. When Frank leaves to the war he leaves behind his sister Cee. He goes to fight in the Korean War to escape his countryside town. Frank is introduced as a man from the South who goes off to fight in the Korean War. Toni Morrison writes in the novel Home about a poor man named Frank Money. Home is set in the aftermath of the Korean war (Brockes). Toni Morrison narrates the main character in her novel by coming to the real source of his post-traumatic stress disorder (Ibarrola).

Home by Toni Morrison