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Calaveras County Compare And Contrast

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The two verses of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County are very similar. If you look at the two you can find many similarities. As well you can find many differences. You most of the differences are very easy to see. There are differences in characters. Furthermore, there is a difference in setting.

In this story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the characters are different. In both the story along with the play you can find a narrator, Jim Smiley, Dan’l Webster, Parson Walker along with his wife, the stranger, also including the frog that Jim got for the stranger. There is also some characters that you can only find in one of the versions. In the story written by Mark Twain, you will find a dog by the name of Andrew Jackson. You never hear about him in the play version. When you go and see the play edition there is a girl who you never really meet granted you never meet …show more content…

They both take place in Calaveras County. The only difference between the two is that in the story version it has a man talking to the reader in an ancient mining camp. Other than this difference it is all the same.

The theme for the play and the story are the same. The theme in my opinion would be how clever the stranger was. Jim Smiley was always a winning machine. Until one day a stranger came around and bet Jim Smiley. He was clever enough to outsmart him. I think that the theme of both the story and the play was the cleverness.

Again, just as the theme, the conflict in the story and the play versions is the same. Jim’s betting is the course of conflict. Betting gets jim in trouble when he verses somebody else who is tricky, which he completely tricks Jim. Betting could become a conflict in people's life even today. A person could bet so much money as well as all the time that that person could run out of money. Then this person can not live his life to the

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