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India has lots of big cities, just like the U. But in India, everyone knows their neighbors. Here, people avoid contact and treat everyone like an enemy until they prove themselves to be a friend. Rugs like that are portable gardens. The garden in Cleveland is green and just as soothing as the rug was.
Though much of the novel criticizes city life, Amir takes a more nuanced perspective here when he suggests that city life can be satisfying and nourishing as long as a person knows their neighbors, like they do in India.
From his perspective, the core issue with American cities is the lack of community, which is what makes the community garden so rare and special. Other characters in the novel have felt this way about the community garden, too—like when Sam referred to the garden as paradise or Eden.
The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Amir is a fabric merchant from India and narrates a chapter of Seedfolks. As he describes his idyllic childhood in Delhi, he suggests that major cities in India and the U. As Amir details his experiences meeting other gardeners, he comes to the conclusion that he—and nearly everyone else in Cleveland—is, to some degree, prejudiced against people from other countries.
And this, he suggests, is the beauty of the community garden: it helped bring the people in his neighborhood together and see each other as neighbors with something to give, rather than as stereotypes or people who should be avoided for one reason or another. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Chapter Amir Quotes. Related Themes: Gardening and Community. Page Number and Citation : 73 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Related Characters: Amir speaker. Page Number and Citation : 74 Cite this Quote. Related Themes: The Immigrant Experience. Page Number and Citation : 77 Cite this Quote. Page Number and Citation : 81 Cite this Quote. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter Amir. Amir grows a variety of vegetables, including eggplants. The eggplants first turn an eerie, pale shade A few weeks later, Amir and some other men hear a woman scream down the block. A man with a She died several years before the publication of Seedfolks. In general, Fleischman writes books designed to bring people together, and Seedfolks was no exception. Fleischman presents the garden as a place where residents can challenge the normal rules of American society and function according to a different logic—one more oriented toward community and generosity.
How happy they seemed to have found this excuse, to let their natural friendliness out. However, it is the stereotypes and prejudices that we have about others who are different from us, combined with cultural norms, that cause us to be isolated, divided, and suspicious. Many of the diverse residents of Gibb Street have prejudiced ideas of their neighbors, often based on cultural and racial stereotypes.
For example, Amir has heard that many Polish people live in Cleveland. All he knows about them are stereotypes: that the men are tough steelworkers and the women cook lots of cabbage. In the garden, he befriends an old Polish woman and learns about her experience in a Nazi concentration camp. But once the garden provides her with an opportunity to actually get to know Amir as a real, individual person, those assumptions fade away, and she is able to truly interact with him.
He was Royce. While the gardeners may be separated by language and culture, Amir realizes that they have far more in common than they realize.
Across many cultures, celebrating and sharing a bountiful harvest is a common tradition that unites community members. Immigration is a central theme in Seedfolks. In the final chapter, narrated by Florence, the author explains the meaning of the term seedfolks, which gives the book its title.
Similarly, many of the participants in the Gibb Street garden are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. However, many of them do not feel part of the neighborhood and leave the first chance they get. The Gibb Street garden changes that. Florence says that the first Gibb Street gardeners are seedfolks, since they took the initiative to transform the vacant lot when all that was there was trash.
Later, the garden obtained more amenities, and rents in the area even went up.
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