Mending Wall

Like Albert Einstein once said “It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better” (Einstein). Traditions are a positive thing that will form who you are, but changing a tradition can benefit your future. Both characters had to have made a strong decision and change a tradition that was something that had affected how they live and who they are. Through the author's use of conflicts and characterization Saki and Frost convey that altering traditions can benefit opposing sides and society.
Robert Frost uses conflict and characterization to show that the man in the poem “Mending Wall” changes his traditions and doesn’t rebuild his metaphorical wall. “There where it is we do not …show more content…
“The two raised their voices in a prolonged hunting call. ‘Together again,’ said Ulrich a few minutes later, after listening in vain for an answering halloo.” The two men are a lot more similar than they thought. They grew up not liking each other from their past generation tradition. They shared wine and ended their feud that had been going on for years, but there karma got them and a pack of wolves had killed them before they even had the chance to become true friends. Saki does this to show that altering traditions can benefit the opposing side. Although they got killed almost right after ending their feud it still benefitted both of them and the town because they buried the hatchet and died friends instead of dying and never getting to know each other. Although Ulrich and Georg die after ending their tradition that had lasted for what seems like forever, they died knowing that it was over and the hatchet had been