Which two lines in this excerpt from "inge's wall" suggest that inge was envious of the people on the ot
the wall was just a few feet from the home inge shared with her parents. aside from her school and ot
neighborhood, their world was a few rooms in a dull, gray concrete flat with no yard and no trees. the
windows they had, and inge was drawn to the sounds she often heard from the other side-laughter, st
traffic.
one day, as she explored the wall imagining what the sounds meant, she came upon a hole. her heart th
through the hole, inge caught a glimpse of a whole new world. it was a world of color-reds, blues, and
strolling down the street, the colors of the shirts and ties the men wore, the colors 5f the ribbons in the l
people who did not begin and end each day in shades of gray. it was alive and brimming with activity, wit
view, for hours until she began to feel the strain in her back and leg muscles. then, pulling herself away,
return again and again.
one fall day in 1990, as inge headed for her favorite spot in the wall, she noticed that the towers from wh
neighborhood were empty. and she noticed something else: she was not alone. others, mostly young me
whom she recognized were at already at the wall or moving toward it.