The most readily-available commonality between American Citizen, “Reluctant Citizens” by Kyle Boelte, and “The Lonely Death of George Bell” by N. R. Kleinfield is the question of what citizenship truly means. There were many attempts to answer this, all ending inconclusively no matter how it was answered: life experiences, a Google definition, and even with other questions that by no means helped. While citizenship was the most affronted and highlighted connection, a more obscure theme of relationships and their impacts on us pose a better answer. Often relationships are described as glue – they keep everything from the government to friendships held together. Society and citizenship are founded and continued by the relationships their
