Personal Narrative: How People Lost Their Sense Of Community

People seem to be losing their sense of community for fear of “getting involved.” A community is a safe quiet place where a bunch of families enjoy the company of each other. Some family could work in a cubical at an office and others could work at the post office, whatever their occupation is there is always peace and quiet in the neighborhood. Kids playing outside knowing each other like if they were family, backyard grill out and other events, but when something bad happens in the neighborhood they are even more quiet then it is on a Sunday night, one murder three attempts and no call for help.
Late night murder with three chances to kill Miss Genovese she scream “Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me!” A light turn on the murder froze until the man from the apartment
He heard the scream, he saw from opening his door to a crack staring at Miss Genovese and her killer. Shutting the door with fear of the attacker coming after him so he called a friend across town for advice on what to do, with hesitation to call the police. The man could be thinking if he get involved the killer could come after anyone in the community again maybe to find out who called the police or just to kill someone. Miss Genovese is pronounced dead by the police which took them only two minutes to get there. Three witnesses who never called the police to help Miss Genovese here they show reason why they didn’t call the police. They were scared if the killer would come back for them, they were worried if the killing was involved with something bigger than just a mugging, and also many of them rather not feel scared to walk at night in the community. They all felt scared but would never change the fact their help could have saved Miss Genovese life. People are losing their sense of community because they would rather protect themselves instead of protecting each