Memoir Response

After reading (Us and Them), the title seemed to suit the story very well. The story is takes place in North Carolina, the author and his family moved a lot for some reason. However, I think the Author’s curiosity is the main reason for the whole story (what curios kid). They are originally from the state of New York. The house that the author (David) lives in is rented. His mom has no problem to go along with people but she prefer not to get very close to any one due their moving for time to time because the mentioned; (there was not much point in getting too close to people we would have to say good-bye to). He had lived in New York and he is telling about his Memoir to the people and showing how curious he was. He hears of a family that does not own a TV. That caught his interests, so he was watching from across the street during the day and then at night he sneaks up to their window and watches. The family whom he been watching is the Tomkeys. He was interested to know what was wrong with this weird Tomkeys. So, he got closer to them and trying to know them more and more by reading the children’s eyes at school or watching them closely like sneaking near their windows at night time. Finally, They have been spending all of their time at the lake, it was Halloween because they left candy for others to get. There wasn’t any left, so the author’s mother told him and his sisters to give some of their candy to them. The author did, but his did not. After that, the author started hating the Tomkeys. So at the end the kid hated the people who were interested to know for a candy (just joking)