The Neighbors

Throughout the book, Scout develops an understanding or her reclusive neighbor, Arthur Radley. Scout, the youngest child of Atticus and her deceased mother, spends her summers playing with her brother, Jem, and their neighbor. Their favorite and frequently played game is a play of their solitary neighbor’s life in which they act out his delinquent past. Scout describes their game, “[the children] had manufactured a small play upon which [they] rang changes every day.” (39) Every day, Scout…

beginning “Neighbors” by Raymond Carver, the main characters of the story, the Millers, seem boring. This trait is one that the Miller’s both feel as well and drives the majority of their actions throughout the story. When Bill and Arlene Miller agree to watch their neighbor’s apartment, they get a glimpse into someone else’s lives and get an idea of their own life. The Miller’s neighbors, the Stones, shine a light on the Miller’s life that they did not want to see. Throughout “Neighbors,”…

Neighbors, written by Jan Gross, is a book telling a different side of the Holocaust. Most times when people think of the Holocaust, they believe it just had to do with Germans killing Jews in Concentration Camps. However, there is another side to the story, one that starts on a summer day in a town called Jedwabne. This time it is different because it is not the Germans killing the Jews, it is the Poles. Jan Gross mentions many different sources throughout the book to prove what happened;…

as a person, especially as a person who has to live next to a neighbor, the concern on the qualities of a good neighbor is always a popular issue to bring about and to desire for. In my opinion, a good neighbor must be a friendly person, while at the same time, a person who is willing to offer help to you when you need the most. As an important and fundamental quality of a good neighbor, she or he must be kind and nice. Neighbors are those persons we meet in everyday life when we go in and…

really incredible for me is how much responsibility we have to our “neighbor” on where Kierkegaard talks about who is our neighbor and why he is so important in our life. Kierkegaard said “to love yourself in the right way and to love the neighbor correspond perfectly to one another; fundamentally they are one and the same thing” (pg22) what makes me agree with Kierkegaard is that loving yourself is the same thing as loving your neighbor…

Birthplace and Neighbors are sources about wartime Poland and were written and filmed in the 1990s. These two documents have similar revelations about wartime Poland, however, they are presented through two ways bearing witness, Birthplace, and writing history, Neighbors. There are tensions and benefits to both pieces. Importantly, both are critical for understanding the complexity of wartime Poland. Bearing witness is personal and intimate with an attempt at closure. While history can be…

Neighbor of Kimble is another classic museum, which is as impressive as Kimble. This was my second visit to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and I would gladly like to go back again and again. This visit was not as exciting as my visit to Kimble due to the fact that I was already familiar with the building. However, I learned a lot and was able to look at art works with more knowledge. I was ignorant towards the works during my last visit, but this visit made me understand the values of…

In Jan Gross’s Neighbors, one reads the story of a horrific pogrom committed by the inhabitants of Jedwabne (a village in Poland) against their Jewish neighbors. In the film Aftermath (Pokłosie; 2012) by Władysław Pasikowski, one finds a parallel—the film was inspired by the Jedwabne pogrom—but this time told sixty years after the fact. Both stories share a similar past: a small village inhabited by Poles, who, during the early days of the Second World War, committed a pogrom against their…

The Good Neighbor policy was an American foreign policy toward Latin America, which was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The policy was originally coined by Herbert Hoover but, announced by Roosevelt. FDR introduced this policy to the nation by saying “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” (CITE)The main ideas behind this foreign…

parable in Luke 11:5-8, God is described as a neighbor. God is described similarly in the poem “You, Neighbor God” by Rainer Maria Rilke. These writings show God in similar, but different ways. Today, many people know God is a neighbor that is there when needed; but, he is also much more than that. Neighbors are more often than not great people. They can keep an eye on things while a person is out of town, and lend a helping hand if need be. Neighbors, however, do not typically have very…