You Cant Go Home Again Pdf

"Is anything amend than finally finding your way home?
Is anything worse than finally reaching home, and finding that you're still lost?"

For some reason or some other, one of the main characters is displaced from their habitation — be it in the sense of homeland, dwelling planet, home universe, or literal house — and unable to return. Oft, their attempts to return form a primal plotline or focal point of the series, but since Status Quo Is God, Failure Is the Only Choice (until, perhaps, the K Finale). If the reason why they can't return is considering of a Doomed Hometown, then their quest is often revenge or a new identify to stay. Sometimes they volition finally render to Where It All Began to claiming the force that kept them abroad for so long. Before the character leaves their habitation, they may give it a final glance before leaving.

This is oftentimes seen alongside Fish out of Water, and tends to result in Walking the Earth or a Wagon Train to the Stars. Trapped in Another Globe usually entails this (so about examples of that trope are equally valid for this one). When this trope is applied to the entire man race, it'south Earth That Was.

Contrast with I Choose to Stay. Also contrast with Stranger in a Familiar Land, in which you tin can become home, but find that you no longer fit in there. If yous can't go dwelling house because you've been banned from doing and then, you're Persona Non Grata. The Stateless may as well accept been expelled from their native state. Compare The Call Knows Where You Live, The Exile, Hated Hometown, Never Accepted in His Hometown, and so What Do Nosotros Practise Now?. A common issue of the "Leaving the Nest" Song.

When this happens, some people may choose to Showtime a New Life instead.

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     Asian Animation

• Happy Heroes: Big One thousand. and Little Thousand. crash-land themselves on Planet Xing Xing and can't return home to Planet Grey.

    Comic Strips

• A series of Peanuts strips followed Snoopy taking Woodstock to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm where he (Snoopy) was built-in, only to find it had been replaced by a parking garage. ^annotation Depending on when this strip was written, it may take been a Shout-Out to Terry, the Cairn Terrier who played Toto, whose gravesite was destroyed by the building of the Ventura Highway. She now has a memorial statue at Hollywood Forever cemetery. This became the basis for one of the Peanuts specials where Snoopy is reunited with his siblings.

  Snoopy: You stupid people! Yous're parking on my memories!!!

• The comic strip Adventures of Gamepro concluded upwardly like this. A pro gamer finds himself pulled into an Alternate Universe where video game worlds are real. While he eventually makes it back to Earth, it turns out the superpowers he picked up while he was there tie him to the dimension, and existence abroad is killing him. This forces a bawling goodbye between him and his girlfriend back home earlier he disappears dorsum to the game dimension.

    Music

• The song "I Can Never Go Domicile Anymore" by the Shangri-Las is fabricated of this trope. It's essentially An Aesop about a girl who runs away from home and breaks her female parent's heart to be with a boy, who she forgets most almost immediately, while information technology'southward implied that her mother dies of loneliness in the meantime.
• "You Can Never Become Home" by The Moody Blues presents a psychological/spiritual version of the trope.
• Burt Bacharach and Hal David's 24 hours from Tulsa, which is equally shut to domicile equally Gene Pitney gets due to an unplanned encounter at his stop-off, which somewhen leads to "I hate to say this to you, just I love somebody new. What can I do? And I tin can never, never, never go dwelling house once more."
• The Finnish military march Jääkärimarssi (Yeager March). Syvä iskumme on, viha voittamaton, meillä armoa ei, kotimaata (Our strike is deep, our wrath implacable, we have no mercy and no homeland). Makes sense, because the Yeagers were patriots (or traitors, depends on which side you wait at) who during the WWI joined the German Army to get war machine training for liberation war against Czarist Russia. The Czarist Law stated mandatory death sentence from high treason.
• "Golden Slumbers" on Abbey Route, The Beatles' last album, starts "In one case, there was a mode to get back homeward..."
• Pushin' the Speed Of Light, a filksong about crewing an STL ship ends with the line "You've left backside you lot the world of men, with no way in space to go dwelling house again."
• A number of Jacobite songs focus on this trope since many were either exiled or refused to live in a state that no longer seemed their ain. Two standards of this type are The Highlander's Farewell and It Was All For Our Rightful Rex.
• "When Nosotros Return to Portland" is a song about fugitives who abscond Portland to become pirates. They long for their old metropolis, but the return would be a sure death sentence, thus "may fate never let us return"
• The Trope Namer is the DJ Shadow song "You Can't Go Home Once more". Despite being mostly instrumental, the overall feeling of the song can be described in the only words spoken at the outset:

  And here is a story near... beingness gratuitous.

• The RuPaul song "Never Become Abode Again" is nigh the prevalence of this trope in the GLBT community, and how queer people oftentimes band together and form new families after facing rejection at home.
• Ry Cooder's vocal "How Can You Go on on Moving (Unless You Drift Besides)" includes a poetry that converses this trope. "I tin can't become dorsum to the homestead, the shack no longer stands/They said I wasn't needed, had no claim to the land/They said, 'Come on, get moving! Information technology's the just thing for you!'/But how tin you proceed moving, unless you migrate too?"
• Pulp's 'Sorted for E's and Wizz' has the singer, talking about a drugged-upward episode at a music festival, imagine calling his mother and say "Mother, I can never come home once again/'Crusade I seem to have left an important part of my brain/Somewhere, somewhere in a field in Hampshire".
• "When Y'all Leave That Mode You Can Never Go Back" by Confederate Railroad is from the point of view of a man who's had a serial of these all throughout his life. It starts with him having a bad fight with his male parent and running away from domicile, then getting a daughter in Knoxville pregnant and abandoning her at the altar before their wedlock, giving him two families he tin never go dorsum to. Almost Subverted as he says in the last stanza that he would like to go dorsum dwelling anyway, beg for forgiveness, and do whatever information technology takes to come back... simply and so it ends with an even darker one as he reveals that he got with another adult female in Houston and murdered her husband when the man walked in on their thing. He's sentenced to death and refuses to receive his last rites, with the priest alarm him that if he leaves Earth this fashion, he'll go a wandering lost soul who tin can never render home to Heaven.
• Creedence Clearwater Revival's vocal 'Lodi' deals with this. The protagonist of the song is stranded in the titular town because his agent ran off and left him in that location, without enough coin to afford a cross-country charabanc home. He'southward forced to perform at swoop bars total of customers who don't intendance (and don't tip) to endeavour and scrape together money so he tin can eat, and for a bus fare home. A year after, he's non any better-off financially than he was when he arrived.
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival also do this with their early hit 'Porterville' where the son of the boondocks ne'r do well - who isn't quite as bad every bit his begetter - can't go home again considering they will hang him loftier if he tries, just because he's his no-good father'south son.
• Lampshaded in the opening line and Played With in 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert as the singer's childhood home is still standing, just someone else is currently living in that location. The singer still asks the current tenant if she can enter to at to the lowest degree reminisce one last time.
• Taylor Swift's "My Tears Ricochet": "And I tin can go anywhere I want / Anywhere I want / Just not home..."

    Mythology and Faith

• The Bible:
  • In the Volume of Genesis, after Adam and Eve break the rules in the Garden of Eden, they are cast out forever and an angel with a flaming sword guards information technology from them. Hence, they and their descendants spread around the planet. The trope is eventually averted in Christianity, all the same, when God takes the consequences and penalization for homo sin on himself.
  • In the same volume, later on Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed, Lot and his daughters have shelter in a nearby cave. Lot's wife made the mistake of looking dorsum equally her hometown was destroyed, and ended upwardly being turned into a colonnade of salt. And their unnamed daughters' fiances were killed forth with their neighbors. They get their father boozer and rape him, and each have a son by him, because they think they're the only people left After the End.
  • Also in the aforementioned book, most of Abraham'southward line falls into this, including Abraham and Sarah themselves. Abraham (then known equally Abram) and his wife/half-sister Sarai are approached by God, given a Meaningful Rename, and told to migrate to the other side of the Fertile Crescent. Abraham has a son named Ishmael by his slave Hagar (who is from somewhere around Egypt or Nubia), and when he and Sarah finally have the biological son they've been waiting for (Isaac), Sarah makes him kick Hagar and Ishmael out into the desert. They are promised by an angel that everything will be okay, and Ishmael becomes the Hero of Another Story. Meanwhile, Isaac grows upward, and Abraham and Sarah really want him to ally a daughter from the "right" family, instead of the local Canaanite women, whom they view as godless heathens. So they send a messenger dorsum to Padan-Aram, and he brings dwelling house a girl named Rebekah every bit a bride for Isaac, and it's understood that she will never render home over again afterward the union (which she accepts). They have ii sons Jacob and Esau, and when Jacob and Rebekah trick Esau out of his inheritance, Rebekah sends Jacob off to Padan-Aram to her brother, where he marries Leah and Rachel. Although he does eventually visit Esau (who, to his surprise, has forgiven him), he never sees his parents once again. His son Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and ends upwards in Egypt, where he becomes an important adviser to the Pharaoh.
  • In the Book of Jeremiah, the titular prophet forth with the Judean survivors of the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem escape to Egypt for fright of the Babylonians, despite Jeremiah'due south warnings from God not to go down there. It is there where God through Jeremiah tells the refugees that a good bargain of them will die there and never render to the land of Judah.

    Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons
  • The Deep Imaskari race in the Underdark setting live in a Hidden Elf Hamlet. If anyone decides to go out, they automatically take the location of their dwelling erased from their memory so that in the (highly probable) chance they are captured past something evil that tin read minds, they will be unable to divulge the secret location.
  • Elminster Aumar of the Forgotten Realms. At the starting time of his book series a magelord on a dragon burns down his dwelling house village to assassinate his father, a prince of Athalantar who had abdicated. Well-nigh a century later, an orc horde destroyed the entire kingdom. The present-twenty-four hour period city of Secomber is built on its upper-case letter's ruins.
• The odds of a fellow member of the Imperial Guard of Warhammer xl,000 making information technology to retirement age are pretty low, considering that the Imperium is almost continuously at war with some if not all of its neighbors (and quite oftentimes itself). Those that make it are generally discharged on the planet they happen to be on when they retire, and their retirement package does not include a ticket back to their home planet (which could exist thousands of lite years away, depending on what events happened during their deployment). Every bit such, in that location is a very good run a risk that anyone who enlists in a Baby-sit regiment volition never return to their dwelling house planet, allow solitary their home boondocks, ever once more. Indeed, the lucky ones instead get a commission and some land on the planet they conquered almost recently, essentially becoming landed gentry in that location.
  • This applies to the Regiments on a logistical and bureaucratic level. Once a regiment is raised it will likely never see its original homeworld or organisation. With new recruits beingness picked upwards from planets they pass, or liberate. Simply the more famous and decorated regiments such equally the Firstborn or Death Korps of Krieg take the privilege of getting reinforcements from their homeworld.
• Vampire: The Requiem goes to bang-up lengths to draw why a fledgling should never go back to its mortal life. Even if its onetime friends and family can cope with its render as a vampire; even if the vampire has plenty Heroic Willpower to keep its Horror Hunger and Unstoppable Rages in check; the dysfunctional, sadistic, and highly lethal vampiric societies will find out and take a very dim view of mortals learning about their existence.
• In Changeling: The Lost, every newly-made Changeling quickly learns that the Fae who abducted and transformed them left a lifelike impostor in their place. Practiced luck convincing the family unit that the deformed, unhinged version of their loved one who showed upwards out of nowhere is really the real person. Even if they manage, Changelings are irreversibly spring to Fate, which tends to turn them into Doom Magnets for mortals they become too close to.
• 3:sixteen Carnage Amongst the Stars opens by touching on this trope and then inevitably hammers it in hard on whatever Actor Characters - all PCs are outcast from the utopian guild on Earth, and forced into glorified penal legions sent to "proactively defend" World by committing genocide on all other life in the galaxy. Whatever graphic symbol who lasts long enough tin can develop a "Hatred for Home" trait that risks them eventually going back to Where Information technology All Began... to exterminate Earth in revenge for what they were forced to do.

    Toys

• The forgotten toy line Snailiens. The heroes are a group of mollusc-similar aliens who come to World to assist save a population of oppressed insects. In the process, a man boy finds their ship, mistakes it for an interesting-looking beat out and puts it on the highest shelf in his chamber to keep it out of the hands of his baby brother. It's non destroyed, just it'southward and then high up the miniscule heroes are resigned to the fact that they'll never become information technology back.

    Webcomics

• Parodied in MegaTokyo, where Piro and Largo finish up in Japan without any coin to purchase a ticket dorsum home. They go several opportunities to fix this, however for any reason, they never actually go dorsum home.
  • MegaTokyo is an interesting case indeed... With the plot and Character Evolution going the fashion it is, it seems that Piro and Largo feel besides tied upwardly in the personal lives of all the people they've interacted with. As such, even if they were offered a fool-proof method to return to America, neither would likely take it.
    • I scene with Meimi and Junpei implies that they may stop upward being forced out of Japan at some point. Until then...
• Belfry of God: Urek Mazino followed Phantaminum into the Tower, but he discovered he could not go out of it anymore.
• Silver Bullet Nights: The head of Donovan's family has disowned him for beingness transgender, resulting in him living on the hateful streets of Toro City. He can't render to the family domicile or business organization; his previous life is over.
• In The Order of the Stick, it is foretold that Durkon will return to his homeland—posthumously. Nevertheless, he's actually happy to larn this because he'd much rather be buried with his ancestors than to dice somewhere else.
  • Of course, he doesn't know the real reason he was sent away from his home in the starting time identify: it'south prophecized that when he returns, information technology will consequence in the state'south destruction.
  • So at that place'south Vaarsuvius, whose quest for ability cost V's union and nearly the lives of spouse and children.
• A minor plot point in Homestuck is that Sburb, a video game which can manipulate physical objects, is targeted at players who are entering adolescence and offset to desire to escape their homes for a life of their own. Sburb also enforces this, since playing it eventually sends players to a Pocket Universe while their home planet is destroyed by meteors created by the game.
• Zeetha from Girl Genius doesn't know where her tribe is from. Everyone who was involved in her journeying to Europa ended up dead one way or another.
• A plot arc in At Arm'southward Length allowed for the introduction of a new character, 1 that was in their Character competition back in 2012. This character appeared in a flash of low-cal, and apparently is from another reality. Sadly, nobody knows how he got there, or if they will be able to ship him back.
• In Freefall, Sam Starfall is prohibited from returning to his dwelling house world, due to his acquiring knowledge of technology far above the approximately "Steam Age" engineering level there.
• In We Are The Wyrecats, K.A. tries hard to choice up where she left off afterwards coming out of a coma, but reality sets in pretty chop-chop that the earth not merely isn't the same one she left, just that it'southward a decidedly worse one.
• Alice Grove: Ardent and Gavia teleport to World from the orbital habitat where they grew upward, then find that their requests to render are being ignored. When they get back to space past a different route, they larn that their "habitat" is actually a simulation being run by a titanic, sapient space tree, which won't accept them back because they've been infected by impossibly advanced picotechnology of unknown purpose. Rough day.
• In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, this trope is why Mab is travelling with Dan simply this is played with. What happened was is that the electric current queen of the faerie kingdom, Nutmeg, made a decree that no one could take a tail fluffier than the queen's, so Mab, known for her fluffy tail, decided "Screw that" and left. She could go back home and did for a little scrap just she chose non to.
  • This happened to Matilda and the reason why she can't go home is considering she ripped off her blood brother'due south arm and beat him with it. In her tribe, a female person going against a male is punishable by death.
• Africa: Chui takes Africa's territory. She returns to effort and reclaim it, only to get beaten. She returns to the new place in defeat
• A recurring theme in many webcomics almost life in college, at least in belatedly 1990s-early 2000s, perhaps in a bit more literal sense. In Higher Catastrophe January visits his parents' home and finds his old room no longer suitable for life. In his instance, it's used as a junk storeroom.

    Web Original

• Atop the Fourth Wall: The Gunslinger'south pocketwatch was made specifically to avoid this trope. Nether normal circumstances, travelling to another dimension would either be fatal to him, or it would cause the dimension to assimilate him, thereby making his own dimension fatal to him. The pocketwatch prevents these effects from occurring. Simply then Linkara destroyed the pocketwatch, causing The Gunslinger to exist trapped in Linkara's world forever, unable to return. When Linkara realizes this, he swears that he'll find a mode to fix it.
• The Dimensional Guardians trapped in Creturia in the spider web fiction serial Dimension Heroes.
• In the Whateley Universe, Stage can't go domicile once again. His family are the largest anti-mutant force on the planet.
• qntm's "Exist Here Now" story introduces a multiple-universes system of time travel. Information technology'due south impossible to time-travel in one's own timeline, but you tin can "jump the tracks" to whatsoever bespeak in any other timeline. The only thing is, the destination timeline is always "the adjacent ane downward the [infinite] concatenation", so you can never go back home once again once you've fourth dimension-jumped once.
• Survival of the Fittest: At the terminate of v3, JR Rizzolo manages to render dwelling after (ostensibly) being the Sole Survivor, only to find that his family unit has disowned him and completely moved out.
• The premise of Mabaka! Magic is for Idiots! revolves effectually a novice wizard from another dimension getting stuck on Earth with no style to become dorsum. Naturally, he ends up staying with the same girl whose grand he crash-landed into. At least until a year is up and he tin render via a dimensional transport system.
• The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: In episode 9, Jane has caught cold and is actually ill, which also triggers her homesickness. It's all the more than sad because she doesn't really take her home. The firm feels empty and isolated, she doesn't take everyone to talk to; she misses university, but concludes that it was just a dorm room.

  "I but want to go home, except for I don't know where that is."

• Random Assault: Kate will never be accepted past her family for wanting to be a female.
• In The Jenkinsverse, Xiù Chang returns to World after spending two years living among an conflicting species called Gaoians, barely survives the effects of a nervejam grenade, spends three years hiding in exile pretending to *be* a Gaoian, and 5 years stuck in a stasis pod afterwards narrowly surviving the devastation of a starship. Her experiences go out her unable to relate to her family and friends back dwelling, but unwilling to return to Gao as that would put the Gaoians in danger from the Hunters. In the end, the only people she feels at habitation with are boyfriend abductees Julian and Allison.
• The first 3 volumes of RWBY are gear up in Beacon University, the boarding school that is training the titular team of students and their friends and colleagues. Past the end of Volume 3, the girls are budgeted the end of their kickoff year in a 4-yr plan. However, the villains instigate an invasion of the schoolhouse by the Monsters of Grimm, leaving the school destroyed, the teachers and students evacuated, the headmaster missing, and a magically-frozen Grimm Dragon passively alluring more than Grimm to the school's ruins. The finale ends with the titular team scattered, and a cross-continental quest first to try and seek answers to who the villains are.
• In Twig, Sylvester realizes, after he deserts Radham Academy with Jamie, that by killing the Baron Richmond and taking Jamie he'due south finally crossed the line and made Radham and his beau Lambs his enemy, and that he tin't go dwelling house, not alive, at least.
• Murder Drones: After Uzie's father betrays her, and the other robots are still cowardly and powerless against the invading killer robots, Uzie decides to exile herself considering there's nothing she can exercise to convince them to fight. Besides, Earth is looking like a much better place to dominion over.

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