Since the key theme of Breakaway lies in the idea of terror at home, Annie's house is the key location - a place of supposed safety and comfort that is anything but for our protagonist. Annie comes from a working class family, so her home is a modest but warm one-story house somewhere in NYC's outer boroughs. She is a girl tied to her neighborhood and working class roots, and this is the world she knows best. Also, it plays to the idea of this terror at home going on in the middle of a busy neighborhood filled with other people who do not or are not able to notice what is really going on underneath the surface of peaceful suburbia.
The coffee shop, on the other hand, represents an escape from home. It is a place of promise for Annie - a promise of another life, of hope, of future that releases her of the chains of her past. It is the place where she gets to know Lamar in a more personal way, but also the place where she, unknowingly perhaps, makes the first tiny step toward her breakaway from home and her father.
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