Peter Lovenheim's Article 'Won' T You Be My Neighbor

Analysis Essay Peter Lovenheim’s article, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is about the importance of Americans getting to know their neighbors because it creates community, encourage people to help to each other, and is personally fulfilling. Lovenheim is successful in persuading the target audience to get to know their neighbors because he persuasively describes the joy of forming a bond with neighbors, the advantages of developing trusting relationships with neighbors, and the increased community safety that results in great familiarity with neighbors. Readers are persuaded to get to know their neighbors because of how Lovenheim describes the joy of forming a bond with neighbors. He points out that people have become fragmented by ethnicity and status quo as a society. They have isolated themselves from each other by dividing themselves with an invisible line. Neighbors living a few doors down from each other don’t know their neighbor’s names. Lovenhem cited a study from Robert Putman’s book “Bowling Alone,” that the decline began 20 years earlier, and that neighborhoods are less than half as strong as they were in

Trust was established between the neighbors when they agreed to allow him to spend the night in their homes. Lou, a neighbor in the article not only trusted Lovenheim to spend the night in his home, but also confided in him where he kept his spare key. Lovenheim stated that the neighbor that killed his wife and himself left no impact on the community. In reading the article “In the Neighborhood,” Lovenheim felt if the neighbor that was murdered had known someone she could trust that lived in the neighborhood, maybe she could have gotten the support she needed and the murder would have been