The Walls

Let’s remember that wherever there is a wall, people try to conquer it or run away from behind it. And this has not changed for thousands of years. A book about walls? You need great talent to write and illustrate a children’s book on a subject that seems to arouse little interest in a young reader. The authors chose over a dozen well and less-known walls built by people. We can learn the specifications of each of them: when and why it was raised, its dimensions and even the material used for its construction.  On each page, apart from interesting information from the book’s content, we find the illustration, which is also a kind of puzzle for curious readers. Newspaper characters, politicians, writers, and musicians match with characters known from fiction, iconic films and comics.

It would seem that in the era of globalization and universal access to the latest technologies that allow us to overcome great distances in a short time and to convey ideas, thoughts and values, the institution of the boundary wall is archaic. But it’s hard not to notice that the walls are still being raised.

The walls are still popular today. Only… Once, behind the walls, the weaker hid from the stronger, and today – the richer from the poorer. Do I prefer to build bridges or build walls?