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Running head: REFLECTIONS OF “WESTBURY COURT Reflections 1
Reflections on “Westbury Court”
Ruben Zea
DeVry University

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Ruben Zea Essay Paper
Every once in a life time we all experience things that can mold into meaningful
memories, and most of us experience it through our childhood in the environment that we once
lived in that occasion. The author digs into her memories when she lived in Westbury Court,
where she experienced a close death experience and learned about responsibility.
She lived in six a story brick building, a subway station beneath the building, surrounded
by walls with graffiti, piles of garbage, an elevator that was not always there to step on, and a
time period when heat and hot water were not available. Basically, she was living in the ghetto
even though she did not notice it. One of the most important memories of her old home happened
to be about a fire that happened across her apartment. Danticat describes that particular day to be
a normal day coming from school, watching television, taking care of her siblings. Apparently
the two kids across the hall started the fire and both ended up dying because of it. The author
later mentions how she thought about the boys even after she moved away from Westbury Court,
how she would of felt if that would of happened to her and her siblings, and wondering what
really happened afterwards with the mother, etc. This became important enough for her to bring
it up after quite some time because it does show how that incident impacted her conscious about
responsibility.
Even though Danticat was old enough to know how things were getting worse, she didn’t
think she lived in a bad neighborhood. Other things happened after the fire. For example she
remembers after the fire incident that a cabdriver that lived in the same building was shot in
Manhattan. A good friend of her father died of cirrhosis, someone stole her father’s expensive
camera and that’s why her father stops taking pictures, and Nigerian immigrant was shot in front

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 Reflections on “Westbury Court” Ruben Zea DeVry University Ruben Zea Essay Paper Every once in a life time we all experience things that can mold into meaningful memories, and most of us experience it through our childhood in the environment that we once lived in that occasion. The author digs into her memories when she lived in Westbury Court, where she experienced a close death experience and learned about responsibility. She lived in six a story brick building, a subway station beneath the building, surrounded by walls with graffiti, piles of garbage, an elevator that was not always there to step on, and a time period when heat and hot water were not available. Basically, she was living in the ghetto even though she did not notice it. One of the most important memories of her old home happened to be about a fire that happened across her apartment. Danticat describes that particular day to be a normal day coming from school, watching television, taking care of her siblings. Apparently the two kids across the hall started the fire and both ended up dying because of it. The author later mentions how she thought about the boys even after she moved away from Westbury Court, how she would of felt if that would of happened to her and her siblings, and wondering what really happ ...
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