The story, "Both Sides of the Fence" by Teresa Bateman describes a character named Alberto who learns a valuable lesson, to not be selfish. Alberto owns a very beautiful tree. Alberto brags about his tree to the whole city. His neighbor Juan admires and reaches out to Alberto. Since Juan was admiring something that did not belong to him, Alberto got mad. Alberto wanted to stop Juan from looking at his tree. So to block Jaun's view he built a giant fence. In the middle of the story, Alberto's tree's branches lean over to Jaun's land. Later on, the tree dropped some apples on Jaun's land. Juan made an apple cake and gave it to Alberto as a thank you gift. Even after building the giant fence Juan still had access to Alberto's apples. Alberto thought that Juan was insulting him. This made Alberto furious. I believe that instead of blaming someone, Alberto should have appreciated that Juan made an apple cake for him. In the end ...
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