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BACK TO HOME PAGE 1. Did the Gibb Street garden help the community members see each other differently? Explain using examples (15 pts)

===The Gibb Street garden helped the community members see each other differently. One way this was shown in the book was how the Italian woman thought Amir was a “dirty foreigner” before she found out that he was very friendly when he was happy. Gonzalo also had another view of Tio Juan when he discovered the garden. He had always thought of Tio Juan as “being a baby” in U.S. because he couldn’t speak English. When Gonzalo found out how much Tio Juan knew about gardening he described him as a man again. Nora learned a lot about Mr. Myles when she wheeled him through the garden. Before that, everyone thought he was just a lonely man with no thoughts. Mr. Myles seemed to express his feelings through the garden. The Gibb Street garden seems to tunnel people’s emotions to the outside world.=== _

I think that the community members saw each other differently through the Gibb Street garden. For example, the Italian woman thought Amir was just a dirty foreigner before the Gibb Street garden. But then when they had the Gibb Street garden and were both community members tied together by the garden, they got to know each other better and the Italian woman apologized to Amir, an obviously did not think that of him any more. Another example was of Amir himself, he had a single story about Poles, that women cooked cabbage and men were just tough steelworkers. But this Polish women was a part of the garden and told him about the concentration camps and her families struggles, and Amir found out how useless his information about Poles were. And lastly, the garden as a whole was afraid of Royce. They thought he looked dangerous, and looked relieved when he left. But as Royce began to spend more time near the garden, they began to realize that he wasn’t as bad as he seemed. They learned that he had sisters, he loved the cats that ran around the garden, and had a speech issue. They began to take him in- the moms even started to feed him! They all had single stories, but through the garden they all learned the truth about what they had been hearing the whole time.