Type of text: Essay
Summary/ Synopsis: The essay under consideration presents the author’s reminiscence about the neighborhood he used to live in. His memories take us back to a housing development (Fairfax Village) in Washington, D.C. of the 1980s and 1990s. As one reads the essay, it becomes clear how much the place has changed, because Jasper provides a comparison of different aspects of life there in the past and in the present. The dangerous Village with a high crime rate turned into a quiet and expensive neighborhood with new buildings, not affordable for African-Americans any more. Yet, Kenji Jasper does his ...
