I Sell My House Alan Wood Analysis

Alan Wood conveyed the central idea of his passage, “I sell my house” that one’s religion can impact the way that others think about them. In the text, Wood described his experience with segregation and how his religion not only affected him, but others around him. Wood conveyed his central idea of the passage that one’s religion can impact the way others think about them through the literary device of conflict.
Throughout the article “I sell my house”, by Alan Wood the central idea was that one’s religion can affect the way other think about them. For example, Wood described his conversation with his neighbor and how “He was perfectly happy to live in a mixed neighborhood, he said, until one day his wife gave a birthday party for his his daughter and asked all the neighbors’ children to come. ‘Of the thirty-two children invited, thirty were Jewish,’ he said. ‘Somehow that didn’t seem a …show more content…
This shows that at first the man wasn’t bothered by living in a mixed neighborhood until the situation where he realized most of the children were Jewish and this fact changed the way he thought about his neighbors. This quote shows that the original owner was confronted with the conflict that the neighbors’ religion affected the way he thought about them. Another example is when the author and his wife were discussing whether to tell new neighbors that the majority of the neighbors are Jewish, and wrote “‘I mean Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are Christians,’ she said. ‘Are you going to tell them about the neighborhood?’... I had a bid in hand, but was afraid that if I described the community the Wilsons would fly away.” This proves they had to worry about whether or not to tell the Wilsons that the neighborhood