Walls

VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE WALLS "SOMETHING " THAT

MENDS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN US

Walls . Throughout human history walls have been erected and breached in pursuit of truth , knowledge , equality and freedom . People erect and maintain real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances , beliefs and territories . The resulting lack of communication reinforces those barriers , often to detrimental effects

The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem . Millions are inserting their prayers into the walls of Japanese temples , while an inmate in one of a hundred prisons across the United States looks past his wall toward

the prayers he did not keep . Billions fall asleep each night surrounded by four walls and thousands travel to China to witness the grandest one of all Who builds walls and who tears them down

In Mending Wall , Robert Frost made us aware that "something doesn 't love the wall " in the beginning of the poem , the wall that symbolizes the boundary and barrier between people . This restraining wall gives protection and a feeling of safety for the people who are inside it . But on the other hand , it also creates a huge barrier to the people who are on the outside . Physical wall and an imaginary barrier is that a physical wall will eventually fall apart as time goes by , and the emotional one on the other hand will only get bigger . That is only difference between them

Though , the wall in the poem is not "the barrier between human contact and understanding " Certainly a wall may be just that , but it can also serve precisely the opposite function "And set the wall between us once again . We keep the wall between us as we go (Frost 14 ,15 . The repetition of "between " should give us pause and remind us of its two equally common meanings : between as separation , as in "something 's come between us " and between as what might be shared and held in common , as in "a secret between two people " or "a bond between friends " The wall divides but it also connects , if you look at it that way "All the meaning is in how you look at it - how the poem encourage you to think about it (Raab

There are always two sides to a wall and the ultimate question is which side are you on . There are positive aspects of walls : keeping your enemy out and negative aspects of the wall : keeping friend from friend . Some of the walls that we build in our lives are too high to let the good in and too low to keep the bad out . A wall can serve many purposes , but if the builder and the neighbor don 't respect the wall and its purpose then the wall is just a wall

However , the walls make boundary lines , which sometimes are not visible among people , and may make them , may make whom cause an illusion . For instance , my brother-in-law , my sister , and I live in Concord in house which is very nice and comfortable . We...