The Neighbors

Some might say that Boo Radley is one of the favorable neighbor in Maycomb because he is caring, although Boo is one the least wanted neighbor because he is crazy and violent. Boo Radley shows a lot of caring when he see someone in need of something. For example, when Miss Maudie’s house was on fire Scout was watching from the Radley gate, Scout was very cold. When she came back home she had a brown woolen blanket which was not hers it was settled that “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at…

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…

Conti 3/30/15 E. Sweeny ENG 112 Standard Argument College Neighborhoods; Quieting the Commotion What does it mean to be neighborly? Neighborly means to act in a friendly and respectful manner. Even the definition of the word neighborly implies that neighbors should act amiably with one another. Unfortunately, that understanding is not prevalent between individuals in college neighborhoods. College neighborhoods have a reputation of being disorderly and having apathetic behavior. Many students…

of love. The message of love we share is stronger than any conflict, or any adversity. We must seek to overcome racial division and grow in unity. We are all challenged by Jesus’ teachings about loving our neighbor as ourselves. He calls us to…

and Neal did not. Furthermore, Frost’s speaker wonders why he and his neighbor need a wall in the first place and his neighbor only responds with, “‘good fences make good neighbors”’ (Frost 27). Frost’s speaker knows the fence is not only separating him from his neighbor but is also taking him and his neighbor in the opposite direction. The speaker believes that what makes a good neighbor is communication, and that a good neighbor should not enclose themselves away from each other but instead…

results. Moreover, Stockman emphasizes the role of neighbors in desegregation through the use of rhetorical strategies. The author believes the purpose of neighbors in society is to shape each other’s identity, and he does so through his use of anecdotes, dramatic and situational irony. Farah Stockman sets up how neighbors can cause either damage or strengthen a person’s identity with anecdotes. Stockman introduces an adverse effect caused by a neighbor while telling Junior’s story: “The bottle…

Mending Wall by Robert Frost is about a farmer and his neighbor mending a wall between their houses, but the deeper purpose of the poem is to convey an idea, and this idea is that humans should question our traditions and see reason instead. Throughout the poem the speaker questions the reasons for building the wall, what brings the wall down in the winter, and his relationship with his neighbor. In this poem Frost Achieves the central purpose by using connotation, situational irony, and…

thinks of the barriers as “...just another kind of outdoor game” (Frost 21). Frost uses playful diction such as “game” to present that the persona of the poem thinks the wall is just some joke. In his mind, a wall that separates two people, like his neighbor and himself, is irrelevant and pointless; he doesn’t understand the reason for such…

nature, but still exists because of our fear. The narrator’s neighbor foolishly supports the tradition of walls, even if he doesn’t know why that tradition…

Dusk, by Natasha Trethewey, the speaker witnesses a neighbor dealing with one of those times in which pain should be endured and empathizes with her. Using the speaker’s experience and thoughts, Trethewey communicates that people should cope with undesirable feelings if it is for the sake of allowing a loved one to be happy, as well as convey the possibility of the neighbor having gone through an experience similar to that of his or her neighbor. In the beginning, the speaker portrays the…