Place two completely unrelated objects next to each other and the characteristics they share and disagree on will surface. Take for example a rug and a person. What a person and a rug may have in common is that they can both be placed on the ground. One thing that makes them different is that one lives and the other doesn't. The same concept of bringing two different things together to find something in common works for Edmund Berrigan's Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side and Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jane Jacobs writes about the change in the city through a classical dance and the movement that surrounds it. “In real life, of course, there is always something happening, the ballet never stops, but the general effect is peaceful and the general tenor even tranquil” (Jacobs 833). This idea of ​​change that she discusses and delves into, shows how not only a particular city but the world is constant. She describes each day as a kind of ballet; witnessing everyone's day as they walk down the sidewalk. Even when a turning point is reached, seeing so many different faces as they all move at different paces and occupy their time in different ways, all adds to that dance. Everything is changing around her and maybe even things don't really make sense, but despite all of that, still being able to come together and create something, no matter what is done with it, is linked to Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side by Edmund Berrigan. Edmund Berrigan's quote: "Even though the New York punk scene at the time was apparently quite large, I was mostly interested in the Star Wars characters... middle of paper... except that all around of them was change and that meant something other than just changing. However, one difference between the two of them was the perspective in which the author wrote and how that affected their writing style. Edmund Berrigan in Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side wrote in a first person perspective, making his writing style a biography while Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in a third person perspective person, which makes his style more opinionated. Works Cited Berrigan, Edmund. “Growing up rent-free on the Lower East Side.” Calling New York: From Blackout to Bloomberg. Ed. Marshal Berman and Brian Berger. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 231-238. Print. Jacobs, Jane. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Writing in New York. Ed.Philip Lopate. New York: Library of America, 1998. 829-832, 1961. Print.