My favorite essay is about Brooklyn. Not a shocker.

My essay class has read a lot of "The Best American Essays" this year, and for the most part, I've enjoyed them. There were a few that I found to be boring and sometimes just stupid, but most of them, I could really understand why they were in a book called "Best American Essays". I gotta say that I think my favorite was on called "Brooklyn The Unknowable".

"Brooklyn the Unknowable" was a essay in which the author gave us a narrative of his reflections on his childhood and where he is in life today, and where he stands on the place (Brooklyn) that he grew up. There were a bunch of things I loved about the essay. he points out the hospitality of Brooklyn to far outsiders, while the worst conflicts in Brooklyn come from issues of territory, that often involve places that are a few blocks away from each other. he discusses peoples' fear of Brooklyn, those mostly being people from Manhattan, called the Manhattanites. They are like two different countries that are so close to one another. The narrator himself even got a taste of Manhattan at one point, living there for a short while, and certainly loving it. And even though he swore that he would never go back, he eventually ended up moving back there, just a short distance away from where he grew up. It kinda tells us that no matter how much he want to leave and promise that we will never go back, which most of us do in our teenage years, we will mostly likely end up pretty close to where it all began. 

I especially love his bit on the industrialization of Brooklyn. He says that although it make make more sense to change the low level buildings of Brooklyn and bring more a metropolistic aspect to it, he would regret the loss of the sun. This says so much about the beauty of Brooklyn, and what he has been shaped into because of living in Brooklyn. It was really a great read.