Seeing 2.
The tone Sanders uses is similar to the one when you are thinking out loud. You use the simple things to discuss. He compares the truth and the idea of homeplace. When we go somewhere, it is the truth, but when is it the idea of it? The author uses the metaphor.
I think the tone of his essay is argumentative. He is trying to discover things and ideas on his own, bringing up the thoughts and opinions of others and arguing over them.
I felt a bit of the sarcasm in his tone, as he describes American building airports, bridges and trails. The most of any nation. I felt sarcasm when he talked about migrants arguing the idea of wheat they brought to native American table and what they took away.
I think we clearly could pretty loudly hear the voice of the author writing this piece.
If I would ask somebody to read it out loud, I would have asked them to speak louder as the author expresses his thoughts and come the voice down when the opinions of others are stated. I would notice though it will be quite easy in the beginning to articulate talking about the three tornadoes and the house built on the same spot, but going further it would become much harder.
If to compare with the essay of Richard Ford, I would say that "At home. For now" is much easy to read and navigate through. It is one of those light reads, stating more of the opinion and expressing the author's own thoughts then stating the argument and going deep into the dark woods. I prefer more compound, more to the core writing with deep reading and discussion, so I like Sanders essay more. Even though I think it will be much easier for public to engage and relate to the Ford's piece.
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