Walls In Ronald Reagan's Mending Wall

In the mid-nineteenth century Romantic trend in American Literature, authors often used the idea of “walls’ that human beings place between themselves and others both physically and symbolically. Unlike a fence of gate, which imply a way in or out, a wall is a sound structure. A wall is a barrier to block someone else out, or is it used to block yourself in?

Butler first employs the wall on an institutional level. Lauren Olamina lives in a walled neighborhood, largely shielded from the violence and crime of the world outside. At the beginning of the novel, as Lauren begins to set the scene of her cul-de-sac community, she comments on the wall’s presence as she and her stepmother look out at the sky, “The neighborhood wall is a massive, looming presence nearby. I see it as a crouching animal, perhaps about to spring, more threatening than protective.” (Butler, 5) The personification of the wall serves to show that walls are manmade, and therefore incredibly

In his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the thoughts of barriers linking people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humor, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate the neighbors in their friendship.

Usually walls are put into places to avoid people to cross borders and keep peace but they destroy peace. Recently one could have heard in the News that Trump wants the Mexicans to pay for a wall between Mexico and the United States. This Wall should make it impossible for people to cross the border unofficially. As one could know from history classes, we had a wall in Germany for many years which was built by the winner countries of the second world war for a similar reason. Before the Wall, many people from East Germany tried to escape to West Germany where they had obviously better living conditions. It divided Germany in East and West Germany. Additionally, there was a part of Berlin, what was in the East German part, isolated from a huge wall that belonged to West Germany. This wall made it hard for the citizens of East Germany to visit West Germany. The Government of East Germany had other principles than the government of West Germany and it was not in the interest of the East German government to show their citizens how good their life could be in West Germany. After the falling of the Wall, it was possible for everyone to travel in Germany whenever they want without standing in line at the borders. But there was a big gap in wealth between East and West Germany. Even today the loans in West Germany are lower and the federal states have less money than the ones in West Germany. But in Berlin, one can visit ruins of the Berlin Wall which are colored and painted. As one could know from visiting Berlin, there is only a small part of the Wall left but at other parts, one could find the position of the wall with marked flagging on the ground. Additionally, one could buy a piece of the wall as a souvenir. Standing in front of the ruins of the Berlin wall inspires this realization: Peace is about breaking barriers not building them.

The wall represent the division of the world. On the west you had the capitalist and on the east you had the communist. The Berlin wall separated the soviets and the westerners. As long as that wall

The separation that walls create cause the people that live within them to have a loss of freedom. Reagan tells us of how the walls cause failure, this failure is " technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even the want of the most basic kind--too little food." Without the walls, the city of Berlin could experience freedom, could experience the new discoveries of the world; without the walls the people could be healthy and well fed. Freedom from the walls would lead to the "advancement of human liberty" and would "strengthen world peace" as stated by Ronald Reagan. Not only do these walls rob individuals of their freedom, they also separate

The theme of separation is present in both texts. Both walls symbolizes separation. Frost’s wall separates neighbors. He believes that “Good fences make good neighbors.” Although Frost’s wall fell apart, they mended it back together. Reagan's wall separates families. The wall also separates the city and country.

The wall stays with the peace after to serve as a memorial or even a reminder of what people can do. The Berlin Wall and Detroits 8-mile wall turned into a mural of amazing paintings of the past wars and suffering. But with each passing day the memory of the hardships, and sadness fades away. Turning into a textbook reading, but for some people it's not over. "Today, there are more than 45 such walls and border fences world wide"(Markon). Although some are just murals, others are the real thing. Like Israel's West Bank Wall. This "25 feet tall and 400 mile long wall"(Markon) still provides protection for Israel people from from Palistine terrorists. Giving them the hope and promise of a great

The theme of separation is present in both texts. While Frost's wall separates neighbors, Reagan's wall separates different things. In Reagan's text, "Tear Down This Wall", his wall separates families. Not only does this wall separate families, but it separates

The article discusses three ways in which all border walls have in common, as the title very well states. The first is a person's natural reaction to something that so often splits cultural, political as social communities apart, and includes a study on the Berlin Wall, and how the closer one gets to it, the more symptoms of anxiety they would have. Similarly, the author state that, in reality, the border walls never work as intended, citing the walls in places like Mellia, and once again, the Berlin Wall. Lastly, how often times, the original plans for the walls are shifted or rearranged completely because of social backlash, or for the simple reason that it disrupts business.

The construction of a wall was a recurring subject in the Tortilla Curtain. The wall being built during the novel only exposes the idea that the real perpetrators are those inside the walls. This is because when trying to keep others out for selfish reason, you then make them the victim. The characters in the novel not only tried to keep them out with the physical wall but with the cultural walls put up as well.

In “Once Upon A Time” the wall is an important symbol. Not only do the main characters move into a house with a wall built up around it, but it’s also in a highly protected neighborhood. The wall represents the separation between the races, but specifically whites and other groups. Arguably the family thinks the wall is a great idea and agree that it should be even higher, “You are right, said the wife, then the wall should be higher. And the wise old witch, the husband's mother, paid for the extra bricks as her Christmas present to her son and his wife.” The increase in the wall height represents the increase in the government's attempt to create more separation. Gordimer's point is proven after the family adds wire coils to the fence to protect them from Apartheid. What the characters don’t seem to understand is the danger that is actually inside the fence. “...Screams while the bleeding mass of the little boy was hacking out of the security coil, with saws, wire cutters, choppers…” This is the Apartheid in action causing separation and tearing the community apart. The mass of issues also connects with the mass amount of separation and

For the ones behind the walls harm is also being done. Economist mentioned xenophobia in her article. Xenophobia is an irrational dislike of people from other countries. In traditionally tolerant Bulgaria there was an attack that happened because of xenophobia. “On November 9th skinhead extremists beat up a Bulgarian Muslim, apparently mistaking him for a Syrian” (“A nightmare for all”). The walls cause irrational safety worries. If the walls cause these problems, then nobody will be safe. This will lead to wars, attacks, racism etc. As a result of irrational safety worries a political party was established that promises to “clean up the country of this scum, these

“The parallel plots of a novel… would act in the reader's mind and perhaps the author's as a kind of splitting” (Holland). Frost meant the wall to embody the physical and psychological boundaries people set up to maintain their privacy. The narrator tone for most of the poem is ironic, because he expresses his desire to rid himself of the wall “There where it is we do not need the wall” (Frost 245), but he repairs it nonetheless, “I have come after them and made repair” (Frost 245). Frost introduces the reader with different causes for the recurring destruction of the wall. The narrator’s first possible cause is nature, but does Frost means a force of nature? His choice of words where “Frozen-ground-swell” (Frost 245), which is another way of saying Frost. The poet might be indicating that in actuality he is the one that want the wall destroyed. The second possible reason for the wall’s destruction is the hunters. The narrator constantly expresses his dislike of the wall, but is quick to reprimand anyone who destroys it; in this case the hunters. The narrator’s act of patching the wall when damaged, is a clear sign that he yearns for a psychological to distance him from the neighbor. This ironic tone continues throughout the poem, but it is never completely clear it the speaker wants the wall removed for good, or keep it as it is. The neighbor on the other hand,