Comparing Alienation in My Life to Frost’s Mending Wall and Melville’s

Comparing Alienation in My lifespan to Frosts Mending Wall and Melvilles Bartleby, the penmanA mere cursory glance at my life suggests that my life has been unthaw from alienation. While it is true that as a heterosexual Caucasian virile growing up in a predominately white community I did not experience much isolation based on my discase color, my gender, or my sexual orientation. I was not immune to alienation as a child. My timidity that came about as a result of having no older siblings in whose steps I could follow, in addition to my some above-average intelligence proved to be the grounds for fellow students to treat me other than than they treated others. My feelings of alienation while growing up are alike(p) to those both the loudspeaker of Robert Frosts Mending Wall, and Bartleby, of Herman Melvilles Bartleby, the Scrivener experience.Just as in Frosts Mending Wall, the speaker questions why his neighbor insists upon keeping the barrier between the two, asking, Why do they fences make good neighbors? so I, to this day, question why I was disaffect as a child (line 30). In my first few age of grade school, I had lots of friends - it seemed as though everyone liked everyone else. As time progressed, however, students began to notice differences between themselves and others and act according to those often wide of the mark perceptions. I remember being criticized for a variety of unsubstantiated reasons - whether it was for tucking my garb in when it was popular to leave t-shirts untucked, for not having heard of the la attempt melodious group, for doing my work diligently, or for getting a 100% on the test - the sarcastic and hurtful remarks did not sit well with me. Though it is spend they most likely made such co... ...at he simply would favor not to.Allowing myself to feel alienated by living in composure to my fears made my early days at school miserable. None the less, in the end, the situation turned out for the better. As my peers and I matured and I proved myself to them by making my voice heard in material body discussions and other aspects of school outside of academics, and as I learned to pass judgment more from others, the alienation slowly came nearly to a standstill. There volition always be those who treat some concourse poorly. Thats their loss. once one is able to acknowledge the fact that though unfriendly, ill-natured people do exist, not all humanity acts as such, his alienation potbelly be bounce back. Even Bartleby and Frosts narrator could have overcome their alienation. All they had to do was put forth some effort to shift down the barriers between themselves and their peers.