Death And Life.docx

DEATH AND LIFE ORIGINAL She starts with the sidewalk. The sidewalk, after all, is where we live most of our lives if we live in a city. It’s where we walk, where kids play, where people congregate and look out for one another— whether they know they are doing it or not. She tells anecdotes—the one about the boy who was rescued by strangers on the sidewalk and the one about the boy trapped in an elevator in a project who cried and cried for hours but no-one came. The sidewalk, where people take responsibility for one another; where a community is formed; where we know our local grocer and that annoying lady next door is far safer than the projects where people—anonymous individuals—live cheek by jowl with their neighbors. PARAPHRASED It starts off the sidewalk. Finally, the sidewalk is where we live in most of our lives in the city. Where do you go, where to play, peoplegather, watch each other, and know whether they know they are doing it themselves? He liked to talk about the boy who was savedon the sidewalk, and he liked to talk to the boy locked up in a project that was crying and crying, but nobody came. Pedestrianpaths for each other; association; We know about our local grocery store, and this tiring neighbor is safer than those who calltheir neighbors.