The common theme of both the story and the poem are that it’s okay to still do old fashioned things. In the story, the man follows in his grandfather’s steps of clearing the long sidewalk of snow for kids who walk to school everyday. He mentions that most of the houses now in his town don’t even have sidewalks because no one walks anywhere anymore. Instead, people just worry about cleaning off their driveways so their cars can get to the road safely. Even though it is a hassle for him, he feels like it is his occupation to do so since he lives right by a high school and a elementary school. In the poem, the writer tells us that they love people who do things the old way, not using technology that has been created now. In the third stanza in
