Compare and Contrast
A Telephone Call vs The Child's Story
By:Summer Armstrong
The stories “A Telephone Call” and “The Child’s Story” tell two very different stories but have many similarities. These stories are two of America’s favorite short stories. They are both very great stories to learn from, but in different ways. These stories are loved for their life lessons. A Telephone Call teaches you that women don't need a man to call them. The Child’s Story teaches us to cherish every moment we have with our family. These stories have many similarities and many differences.
In these stories they both have a romantic relationship of some sort. In both stories the author changes the emotions rapidly. In A Telephone Call the woman is optimistic at first and then gets angry and upset then she starts to make excuses. In The Child’s Story the author changes emotions by the traveller being happy for finding someone then losing them, this happens multiple times. Another similarity is that you do not know exactly how old the main characters are. In A Telephone Call you are to assume she is in her mid 20s because of the way she talks about the man and that it seems as she lives alone. In The Child’s Story the main character is just called a “traveler” because he is able to play and run and walk through all the moments it is to assume that he is late 20s.
These stories have many differences as well. One of the main differences is where they are set. A Telephone Call is set in the main
A similarity noticed was the main topic of each story. Each express their view and their experience living in America. Both being girls living in an American society. Both talking about their American identity while being a mix of different ethnicities.
Whether you’re an animal in a cage or a boy on the last day of school, freedom is important. This is the theme of the passage from Boy’s Life written by Robert McCammon and the story “Emancipation: A Life Fable” written by Kate Chopin. The passage is about a boy named Cory who is in class on the last day of school, so eager to be free and “A Life Fable “ is about an animal who was born in a cage which eventually is opened and the animal leaves and realizes it's happier than before. These two stories both come to the same theme of how important freedom is, but in different ways. These two stories seem so different, but they have some similarities on how they come to the conclusion of freedom.
These two stories were also very different, they were written in different views. The second story was written in first person, it told a story about a past experience. The first story was very general, it related to many women readers,
Family stories was the overall theme involved in both essays. Although “Lunch” tells the story of
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
different. They both share similar topics, in that they are two stories of cultures, but written from
Lee’s essay “Magical Dinners” and Slater’s “Tripp Lake” are two stories that allows you to see different situations that involve a parent and a child. They both struggle with different things one being with dramatic life changes that come with being a foreigner moving to the united states and one being a childhood camp experience and the mothers maternal fear of the daughter.In Magical Dinners it showcases the story of the authors mother and the frustrations of living in a place with unfamiliar food,language and faces. In Tripp Lake the author is the narrator and you see the mothers feelings convey through her daughter being able to do things she wasn 't when she was younger. In these two stories we will look at the impact both mothers had on there child 's lives and trying to please them through the events , actions and motions involved.Based on reading the two stories Magical dinners and Tripp lake i found that they have similarities that produce two different results.
In conclusion, while both stories have similar cuisines, their settings and points of views are fairly different.
In, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, by Joyce Carol Oates and “Eveline”, by James Joyce, two characters prove to be completely different but share few similarities as well. In both short stories, the main characters, Connie in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” and Eveline in “Eveline”, are both teenage girls who face problems at home. Connie and Eveline who are both caught up in their own cultures in different times are Both girls seem like they have it all going for them but what they conclusively share in common is their final decision bringing them to their downfall. The theme in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” and “Eveline,” possess and unyielding insecurity which stems from their family lives. Everything had two sides to it, one for one home and one for the other. Each of the girl 's home lives was oppressive and restraining. Making them both have to grow up faster.
To start off with one major difference is the point of view of the stories. In “The Lottery” the point of view is omniscient (all-knowing). “Charles” point of view is 1st person because it is told by the wife. To add to the three major differences is the genres. The genre of “The Lottery” is horror because of what happens at the end. The genre of “Charles” is comical because of the stuff that “Charles” does. To sum up the differences between the stories is the tone. The tone of “Charles” is comical. In “The Lottery” the tone of the story was serious which is different from
These two stories have few things in common that can be described in a way that
The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.
The two short stories share one similar theme, and contrast in others. The theme these two stories can compare is how the women, Mrs. Mallard and Clair feel about their loved ones and the relationship problems they face. The unsteady relationship becomes apparent when Mrs. Mallard expresses that she feels a sense of freedom when she hears of her husband’s death, which is odd for any marriage unless there is a sense of unhappiness within the relationship. Learning Mrs. Mallard feels free after her husband’s death makes the reader believe she was in an unhealthy
These two stories contain themes that are different as well as themes that are the same. The tones in these stories overlap in a way. These overlapping tones are:
The narrators in the two stories both possess similar traits, but some aspects of each narrator are distinct. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the narrator is