Comparing The Night The Bed Fell And Stolen Day

The two stories were alike in the fact that both authors lost their parents at a very young age. Since they lost their parents at a young age, they were both raised by their grandparents. Both stories also begin with a safe arrival to a new country. Both also said the journey to the new country was a two month long trip. And lastly, the the refugees and the pilgrims traveled to a completely different continents and had to adapt to new cultures. These are all the similarities between the two stories.

The similarity and connection existing between the two stories is the point of view in the two essays. The stories are both written in the first person perspective and that

In writings, one can see a lot of similarities in stories, whether it be something as simple as the plot or things of that nature or something deeper like the meanings behind each one of them. But along with the similarities of course come the differences, because no story can be exactly the same. If you look at “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, you can see this trend hold true.

These characters relate to each other by their actions and inner thoughts. Even tho the stories have some contrast, both stories have the same moral which is honesty will be reward. The Emperor’s Test is a traditional folktale, because it’s set in a distance place long ago,

Both of the stories use dialogue to convey the theme. In “Night”, Moishe is a survivor who escaped and talked to the other characters about what happened to warn them. The text in paragraph 9 says, “He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This shows that they all chose to ignore him.

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

Although the stories’ main components mirror each other, they still differentiate. For example, in “The Devil and Tom Walker,” everyone believes Tom has made a deal with the devil, whereas in “Young Goodman Brown,” the author questions the actuality

In the two short stories, “Brothers are the Same” and “Through the Tunnel” can be similar in some ways, such as the two boys have to go through rite of passage and they both are introduced to problems along the way. But the stories can be different in ways too. Such as Temas and Medoto have to do a rite of passage because it is tribal, Jerry has his own rite of passage. Also, Temas and Medoto have a harder task to go through rites of passage. Temas and Medoto have to kill a lion and all Jerry has to do is swim under a flooded tunnel.

In a way, these two stories are similar because both the authors had carefully chosen the words they

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.

while the first story related to only a slim few. Although these stories related to one another, they did not reach out to the same audience. There are only a few readers who can relate to both at the same time.

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

In another way, these two stories are different because the authors have been using different perspective when narrating the story.

The narrators in “The Night the Bed Fell” and “Stolen Day” had to face problems within their family. When Thurber’s bed falls, it leads to misconceptions, causing a chain reaction of problems to occur. When Anderson wants to be like his friend Walter and not go to school, he tells his family, but gets laughed at. These two narrators have some similarities and differences. James Thurber and Sherwood Anderson are similar in a few ways.

Another similarity between these two stories is that both of the characters have husbands who take