Compare and Contrast Family is not just important. It is worth everything. They will always be there. The passages “A Day’s Wait” and “Stolen Day” are both stories about boys who either suffer sickness, or think that they are. Some similarities and differences in this story include setting, sickness, and characters traits. The first difference in this set of stories is the setting. The setting in the story “A Day’s Wait” is very different from the story “Stolen Day.” The background of the story gives the setting. The setting for the story “A Day’s Wait” is, “In this story, they are back in the United States” (Hemingway 299). This means, as it says, these characters lived in the United States at the time of this story. In “A Day’s Wait,” the story takes place in the house and outside (Hemingway …show more content…
Schatz is brave and he accepts what he thinks will happen. Evidence of this in the story is where it says that Schatz had been expecting to die all day because of a misinterpretation of what the doctor said about his temperature. The doctor took his temperature in Celsius, but he thought that it had been taken in Fahrenheit. However, he did not cry or complain until the day after he had learned about his misunderstanding (Hemingway 299-302). The boy in “Stolen Day” is completely different. The boy had wanted attention and lied to achieve it. In the story, it says, “It must be that all children are actors” (Anderson 304). Therefore, you can tell that he was acting the whole and never really was sick. The boy in “Stolen Day” is also does not like getting made fun of. Evidence of this in the story is when he says, “ I had a feeling that, if I said I had inflammatory rheumatism, Mother or my brothers and my sister Stella might laugh. They did laugh at me pretty often and I didn't like it at all” (Anderson 306). This quote exhibits his feelings about being made fun of. Ergo, the boys were different in character traits
In addition, this book succeeds in terms of depicting real life situations to young children. As presented in the story, Reed’s father lost his job; thus, causing him to move back in with
A re-acquiring idea in fiction is the struggle to achieve dominance. In Helen Porter’s “Moving Day” the idea of achieving dominance is also present but this is mainly caused but the family disagreeing over the mood, this also ties into the mood. In Helen Porter’s “ Moving Day” the use of literary elements and personal expression will have a negative effect on the family and their ties.
Parenthood was a factor in the boy’s life, this ideas gives you an insight on what he wanted the reader to convey. here are two different emotions running through this story from both the boys. In the author Wes Moore the emotion you feel while reading it is hurt and compassion.
Parenting played a big role in shaping the two boys lives. Having a parental mentor is important because they assist and guide children to take the right decisions about their lives. The author had his two parents at the beginning of his life. Also, the author’s parents, especially his mother, tried to raise him in an effective way wanting him to know the right from wrong at an early age. “No mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing” (Moore 11). This quote was a live example of the author’s life with his parents. It reflected the different ways his parents used to teach him “the right thing.” Though his mother was upset from his action toward his sister, his father
The author of the book, Wes Moore, describes the different opportunities and life style he had with another person who shared the same name. The similarities that those boys had when they were younger were significant. Both boys grew up without a paternal figure and their mothers had to work extremely hard to take care of the rest of the family; they were constantly moving from city to city to ensure education and safety. Their mothers had to work excessive number of hours to cover the most basic needs. Living in poverty changed the future of the boys.
After reading the essays, “Lunch” and “Feet in Smoke”, the reader comes to realize the privilege and importance of family stories. Both essays portray a heartbreaking story of losing a member of the family either through death or losing them mentally.
To start off, Ascher uses the rhetorical strategy of compare and contrast to reflect on the nature of solitude. She compares the
The comparisons and contrasts between The Hiding Place and Night. Both books were written with struggles, tenderness, agony, and fear in mind. Of these two books only one comes out and realizes that what they have gone through was not a cruse but some what a blessing from God, Himself. The struggles both face is more than just man against man but it is also a struggle within to find who they truly are and whom they truly believe in. Both main characters, Eli and Corrie, faced something they never knew they could face but only one comes out stronger than the other.
Compare and Contrast helps a lot to reader to make a two different thing clear in their point of view and Susan Cain, the author has done perfectly well with the comparison and contrast. In paragraph 9, Susan Cain has compared Shyness and introversion. “Shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shy people fear negative judgment; introverts simply prefer quiet, minimally stimulating environment.” And on the next paragraph, the first had contrasts the shyness and introversion. “But shyness and introversion share an undervalued status in a world that prizes extroversion.” This make really clear for the reader that shyness and introversion are totally two different things. The next thing that she has compared to is Sitters and Rovers. The “rover” fish couldn't help but investigate - and were immediately caught. But the “sitter” fish stayed back, making it impossible for Professor Wilson to capture them. “In contrast, sitter children are careful and astute and tend to learn by observing instead of acting.” This compare and contrast made it clear for the reader and it make a clear difference in sitters and
In the novel “ Break of Day” by Tony Palmer he depicts the themes of family, bravery and death. The story is about Murray, a boy who lived during the war time and his story that follows the themes of family, death and bravery. First talking about family, in addition talking about death and finally talking about bravery.
The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom
The similarities between the two stories speak of life's lessons and the sometimes-painful road we have to take in order to gain life
Since the story is about two brothers who are very different from one another, this helps set the tone of the story.
The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched
The first feeling of this story is that the boy and his father struggle with their relationship, but as it unfolds, the reader sees how they do care for each other. It also becomes easier to spot the difficulties of communicating within a broken family. The father does a fine job to of turning the boy’s scheduling obsessions into a positive for the boy by noting it as one of his strong points.