A home is more than a place, it's a place where you can center your affections and find your identity. Moving to a place that you consider home can be difficult because of the comfort you feel when your old identity is tested in a new environment. By conveying emotion through body language, having logic behind her statements, and establishing credibility, Elizabeth Alexander effectively explains her southern identity and how one identifies with a place. I can relate to Alexander in the sense of having to live somewhere long enough to be comfortable enough to consider that place your home. In the video interview with Elizabeth Alexander, she begins by talking about the time it takes to feel comfortable enough to actually write about this place as a home. She then explains the differences between the Upsouth place, where she grew up, and the places further north, where she lived later in life. She identifies Washington DC as the Upsouth, a culture where people mix in the streets, as opposed to cities further north where Northerners do not act this way. His grandparents had a great influence on his writing. Her grandmother and grandfather had different accents that fascinated her when they told her stories. She then explains that no matter how far she moves from the South, she still clings to the ties that bind her there. Elizabeth Alexander demonstrates pathos in her interview through body language and facial expression to increase awareness of her point of view. . Elizabeth begins by talking about the difference between living somewhere and calling it home. Once she starts talking about the places she considers or has considered home before, the viewer can tell that she...... middle of paper..., occasionally adding you all, to the culture of South Alabama. Elizabeth Alexander's southern roots run deep. Even though she has moved away from the South, she cannot deny where she comes from and the culture in which she grew up. Through the use of body language, logic, and establishing his authority as a poet, Alexander adequately establishes his southern identity and what qualifies it. a place a house. Because of Alexander's successful use of ethos and pathos, as a viewer I could understand that your beginnings and culture come from a different place than where you currently live and how long it takes to make a place truly feel like home. "Natasha Trethewey interviews Elizabeth Alexander." Interview conducted by Natasha Trethewey. Southern spaces. Emory University Library, December 10, 2009. Web. January 31. 2011.