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Compare The Difference Between A Day's Wait And Stolen Day

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“A Day’s Wait” and “Stolen Day” Pessimistic means to always see the worst in things or to always believe the worst will happen. The author of “A Day’s Wait” is Ernest Hemingway. The main character in this story is a boy named Schatz and the story is told from Schatz’s father’s point of view. In the story Schatz has the flu and he thinks he is going to die because he misunderstood the temperature measurements of Celsius and Fahrenheit. The author of the story “Stolen Day” is Sherwood Anderson. The main character is a boy who believes he has inflammatory rheumatism. He tells himself he has this disease because he wants to go fishing instead of going to school. Both of these stories have many similarities and differences. The stories “A Day’s …show more content…

One similarity is Schatz and the boy from”Stolen Day” both believe they are going to die from a sickness. In the story ”A Day’s Wait”, Schatz believes he is going to die because he overheard his friends talking about the normal body temperature of a human but, in degrees Celsius, (Hemingway 302). Schatz thinks he is going to die because the doctor told Schatz’s father that he has temperature a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The boy from “Stolen Day” believes he is going to die because he thinks he has inflammatory rheumatism. The boy thinks this because his joints occasionally ache when he moves. Another similarity between both stories is they are both set in a setting that is about one hundred years ago. In about the middle of both stories the two boys believe they are so sick they cannot move. In the article” A Day’s Wait” is states,” He [Schatz] was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move,”(Hemingway 299). This quote shows that Schatz was very …show more content…

One of these differences is, in the beginning of the story, Schatz does not want his father to come into his room because he does not want his father to become ill as well. Schatz’s father insisted that he reads to Schatz. Schatz’s father stayed with Schatz and read to him for a while. In the story “A Day’s Wait” it says,” I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I was reading,”(Hemingway 300-301). This quote shows that Schatz’s father read to Schatz even though Schatz was not following along. On the contrary, the boy from “Stolen Day” wants more attention from his mother. In the story “Stolen day” it says,”She was pretty busy that day and hadn't paid much attention to me. She had made me get into bed upstairs and then hadn't even come up to see how I was,” (Anderson 307). This quote shows the boy wanted more attention from his mother, because he said his mother had not paid attention to him. Another difference between the two stories is Schatz was truly sick while the boy was not. The doctor came to Schatz’s house and gave him medicine so he would get better. However, the boy from “Stolen Day” only thinks he had inflammatory rheumatism because he wants an excuse as to why he can go fishing instead of going to school, (Anderson 307-308). There are many differences between the two stories, “A Day’s Wait” and “Stolen

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