Which two lines in this excerpt from "Inge's Wall" suggest that inge was envious of the people on the other side of the wall?
The wall was just a few feet from the home inge shared with her parents. Aside from her school and other crumbling buildings in their
neighborhood, their world was a few rooms in a dull, gray concrete flat with no yard and no trees. The wall was part of the view from the only
windows they had, and Inge was drawn to the sounds she often heard from the other side -laughter, shouting, music, and the noise of busy
traffic.
One day, as she explored the wall imagining what the sounds meant, she camne upon a hole. Her heart thumped wildly as she leaned toward it.
Through the hole, Inge caught a glimpse of a whole nes yorid. It was a world of color-reds, blues, and yellows in the dresses of women
strolling down the street, the colors of the shirts and ties the men wore, the colors of the ribbons in the little girlst braids, it was a world of
people who did not begin and end each day in shades of gray, it was alive and brimming with activity, with living. Inge leaned, transfixed by the
view, for hours until she began to feel the strain in her back and leg muscles. Then, pulling herself away, she headed home, knowing she would
return again and agaln.
in the wall, she noticed that the towers from which the guards viewed her
One fall day in 1990, aS inge headed for her favorite spot
nelghborhood were empty. And
she noticed something else: she was not alone. Others, mostly young men with a mix of other people, some of
whom she at recognized were at already at the wall or moving toward it.
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