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Excerpt From Open City By Teju Cole Summary

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In our society, work leads to competition and this characteristic, makes people have not attraction to support others. In the article "Excerpt from Open City," by Teju Cole, the author's character shows how walking is better than people support, to overcome some "isolation." The character discovered that walking alone is a therapy better than having thousands of people around oneself. Modern urban life is making people have less empathy for others. In his imagination, he criticizes the social roles that others make around him. The character is a person who had isolation during sometime before he started walking. Without society support, he chooses this contemporaneous habit he used to do. Even though, “more people, hundreds more, thousands
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