The Other Side Analysis

Across the world people struggle with friendship one example of this is in the story The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson. The Other Side takes place in a old world where being friends with another race is looked down on. In the story two girls Annie and Clover one white one African American live next door to each other and after a while they become friends. A theme from this story is friendship is important in life. I have 3 parts of the story where it was important or happened, in the beginning both of our characters are lonely, in the middle they start doing stuff together, and in the end they become friends. The first reason why friendship is important shown by this story or the beginning of the story is Annie and Clover are both lonely. One piece of evidence is neither of them really had
One thing that starts happening is they start making eye contact, they started to see each other that is really important. After a little bit they start talking together and asking for each others names “I got close to the fence and that girl asked me for my name.” This is where the friendship might start and if neither of them had friends then their life would not be very good. A final piece of evidence is they actually sat on the fence together. Their friendship starts here.These pieces of evidence and reason show friendship is important while doing things with other people.
The last reason why friendship is important is in the story they actually become friends in the end. One thing that shows this is they played together, and friends play together. Another sign that shows they were friends is they sat together on a fence. Friends sit together Clover even says “That summer me and Annie sat on the fence. Finally at the end and in the middle a little they talked, a lot and others joined on the fence and talked with them. This all shows friendship is