Put two completely unrelated objects next to each other and the characteristics they commonly share and disagree about will surface. Let's take for example a carpet and a person. What a person and a carpet may have in common is that they can both be laid on the ground. One thing that makes them different is that one lives and the other doesn't. The same concept of putting two different things together to find something in common works for Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side by Edmund Berrigan and The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. Through the Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, she writes about the changing city through a ballet and the movement around it. “In real life, of course, something is always happening, the ballet never stops, but the general effect is peaceful and the general tenor even tranquil” (Jacobs 833). This idea of ​​change that he discusses and delves into portrays how constant not only a particular city but the world is. He describes every day as a sort of ballet; witnessing everyone's day as they walk down the sidewalk. Even when you turn a corner, seeing so many different faces as they move at different paces and occupy their time in different ways, it all adds to this dance. Everything changes around her and maybe even things don't make sense anymore, but despite all of that, still being able to come together and create something regardless of what is done with it, relates to Edmund's Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side Berrigan.In Edmund Berrigan's quote, "Although the New York punk scene at the time was apparently quite prominent, I was mostly interested in the Star Wars figures... middle of paper... except that everything around them was change and meant something else than just change. However, the difference between the two was the perspective in which the author wrote and how this influenced their writing style. Edmund Berrigan in Growing up Unrented on the Lower East Side wrote in a more first person perspective making her writing style more of a biography while Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in a third person perspective making her style more opinionated. Works CitedBerrigan, 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.