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“We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, its already rundown. It looks like a parody of the good, clean, faceless life- god knows the people who live in it do their best to make it a parody. The beat-looking grass laying down isn’t enough to make their life’s green, the hedges will never hold the streets, and they know it. The big window full no one, they aren’t big enough to make space out of no space. They don’t bother with the windows, they watch the T.V screen instead. The playground is most popular with the children who don’t play at jacks, or skip rope, or roller skate, or swing, and they can be found in it after dark. We moved in partly because its not to far from were I teach, and partly for the kids; but its really just like the house sunny and I grew up. The same things happened, they’ll have the same things to remember. The moment sunny and I started into the house I had the feeling that I was simply bringing him back into the danger he almost died to escape”(Baldwin 82). Here the author is not only describing their old and new neighborhood, but describing their relationship between the two brothers. When Baldwin describes how their old neighborhood was old and rundown and most kids come out at dark, with close reading and critical thinking we can translate the paragraph showing how we came to the conclusion from the recent paragraph. The worn down neighborhood used to show how it damaged the relationship between him and Sonny. The same closeness as any other brotherly comes with. Just like the houses, there relationship became strain and distant due to drugs and their living environment.
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