Amir is an immigrant from India, who manages a fabric store and decides to grow eggplants in the community garden on Gibb Street. He comments that the objective in America seems to be to avoid contact and treat everyone as enemies unless you recognize them as friends. He even recalls an incident when an Italian woman called him a dirty foreigner when he gave her the wrong change in the store. When his eggplants begin...
Amir is an immigrant from India, who manages a fabric store and decides to grow eggplants in the community garden on Gibb Street. He comments that the objective in America seems to be to avoid contact and treat everyone as enemies unless you recognize them as friends. He even recalls an incident when an Italian woman called him a dirty foreigner when he gave her the wrong change in the store. When his eggplants begin to develop their beautiful purple color, the other gardeners become interested and come over to ask about them. Amir mentions that it was pleasing to have such friendly conversations with his neighbors. He says, "Those conversations tied us together" (Fleischman 75). He goes to describe how he developed a friendship with a Polish woman while gardening in the lot and tells a story about how the gardeners began helping Royce by giving him food and paying him to watch over their plants. Amir also discusses a community barbecue that took place in September. He mentions that it was similar to the harvest festivals in India where community members talked and shared what they had grown with each other. Amir clearly believes that the greatest benefit of the garden on Gibb Street is how it brings the community together to socialize and interact. He values the conversations with his neighbors and the friendships he develops with the other gardeners.
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