The Barrio Essay

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Enzo Vezzaro 10/05/2014 English 28 Section # 3700 You live in the Barrio, and one friend of yours is thinking about moving to your same Barrio. Should he/she move? Enzo Vezzaro 10/05/2014 English 28 Section # 3700 Moving to The Barrio Dear friend, I know you are thinking about moving to my Barrio. Your choice might be correct, but if it is not? The writer Robert Ramirez wrote an essay many years ago entitled “The Barrio” which describes how the people live in communities like mine, and it can give you an idea of what the Barrio is and how living here is. Living in the Barrio is not always easy. It has its advantages and disadvantages. Even though the people have a special relationship among them, we also live in very poor conditions. In the essay the author says that the Barrio is the attitude of the people that live there (319). They are poor people trying to survive as best they can. However, they don’t lose their smile, their sense of happiness, or the feeling of being in contact with others. Here in the Barrio, you can touch the feeling of being part of something, a community. Where everybody knows everyone and have a connection with each other. If you move here, you will see the people greeting each other on the street, playing soccer at the park all together, or just talking from the windows with their neighbor. It is magical the atmosphere that it’s created because it feels like being in an enormous family. “The Barrio is closeness” says Robert Ramirez (319). And this is true, “closeness” to your family, your neighbor, your classmate or co-worker. Everybody became part of your family. The view of the world became more social, from the cup of sugar that you give to your neighbor to the emotion that gives you to know that your friend’s daughter has a new baby. The main advantage of living in the Barrio is, without any doubt, the relationship
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