The Symbolism Of The Fence In The Other Side

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In the book The Other Side, the author creates a curious tone and uses the fence as a symbol of segregation to illustrate an example that no matter the color of your skin we are all made equal. The book presents a great lesson for all children, especially with the book coming from a child’s point of view. The tone in the book The Other Side is curious. Throughout the story, Clover was very curious to why she was not allowed to go over the fence. Paragraph four states, “That summer everyone and everything on the other side of that fence seemed far away. When I asked mama why, she said, ‘Because that’s the way it has always been.’” Clover was very interested on why everything on the other side was separated from them. Another example is when

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