The Old Men Are Related
Comparisons Between Two Short Stories
Many intricate and renowned stories have been told over the history of humankind. Few have been linked and related to each other in the strangest of ways. Many people have critiqued and compared every last tantalizing detail in all of the stories and ripped them to their very meaning. When finding two stories that are very similar, you have to dip deep into their meanings and you have to find every single difference you can to bring the stories alive. The time and the place and the characters behaviors within their cultures are all extremely important factors. In the two stories The Man to Send Rain Clouds and The Old Man of the Temple, many bountiful similarities and differences can be found.
The most distinctive difference between the two stories is the settings which changes the plot line of the entire story. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds, the setting of this odd, sort of native land where death and rituals are all confused with the normality of what we normally know. The scene in the other story adds sort a mystery to the story, creating a very odd feeling, making it far more successful. The setting of the first story lends a sort of secretive feeling to the storyline, as the cart away the body, all of it eerily calm. In the second story, the mysterious and sort of ancient feeling of the story is well put with the background. Without the respective settings of the stories, the miniscule details and the
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
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,
Have you read or heard of the two short stories that are called The Tell a Tale Heart or the Short story that is called called There Will Come Soft Rains. They are both short stories written by authors with different writing styles that are quite unique. Both stories were very different written by very different authors The Tell a Tale Heart was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. The other story’s author that wrote the story There Will Come Soft Rains was named Ray Bradbury. The Authors both use quite unique writing styles but they are very different types of writing style. They both are in different genres one is a horror story and one is a Sci-FI. Both of these stories are quite different but also the same as they are very interesting
To begin the comparison of the two myths, one must look at both the similarities and the differences. To write the myth both poets need help from the Gods, however, the Gods just appear to Hesiod, thus making the Gods in control and the Gods are asked to help by Ovid, thus putting
As for differences, I came upon many that I think show how the authors might’ve felt about star crossed love, young love, or just love in general. The little details I picked at really do draw lines between the two stories and give them both different meaning.
The floods in Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh are in no doubt different but in so many ways similar. The two men are given a task to save humankind from a flood and succeed and are rewarded. The major basic events that take place in the stories a similar however the smaller details of them and how they are carried you are different. They two also tells us a lot about the relationship between humans to Divinity.
The last main similarity is that each god had their own group of chosen people. The Egyptian idol’s chosen people were, not surprisingly, the Egyptians. The gods provided for the
In this essay, I am going to compare and constrast the two stories. One is "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet and the other is "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. In "By the Waters of Babylon", the author basically compares and the house of the gods and the Dead Place. In "Anthem", the characters in the story finds an underground place where no one should go.
One of the similarities that both passages portray consists of the style of writing, the way the author carries out the messages allow the audience to understand the
These two stories are very similar in their context because they occur close together in history. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written around 600 B.C.E. but the historical events that the Epic of Gilgamesh talks about would have taken place around 2,700 B.C.E. which is when Gilgamesh lived. Similarly, the Book of Job was written around 1,000 B.C.E. but would have taken place around 2,000 B.C.E. Both of these stories happened within 700 years of each other but didn’t get written until many years later, 2,000 years later for the Epic of Gilgamesh and 1,000 years later for the Book of Job. While a 700 year difference may seem big when put into perspective of history the 700 years is an extremely small gap. By being so close to each other in time, this means that the context and advancement between the two aren’t significantly different.
The second story is the story of Hercules the most famous hero is greek mythology. Hercules Identity is shaped threw the 12 labor he completed to become a god each labor sculpting his identity in a different way. When he slayed the Lion as his first labor his arrogance started, leading him to almost losing a fight to the Hydra a incredibly strong being with heads that double every time you cut them.
In this story you will learn about life changing events for these two story’s that will change the future of the stories. For the two stories of sound of thunder and being pray. This going to show conflict and action. And you’re going to mostly and similarities in these stories. This is going to conclude what you will learn in these two stories.
The tales of Gilgamesh and Noah are as memorable as they are incredible. They materialize the beliefs of two cultures telling very similar yet very different stories. Gilgamesh, a mighty warrior overwhelmed by grief of his passed friend, went an an epic adventure to find the secret of eternal life. Noah, a morally right and genuine man saved the future of the entire human race and every animal through great endurance and faith. The personality traits, reasons for journeys, and stories of origin of each myth have a plentiful amount of both commonalities and diversities.
The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey both are held in high respect by literature analysts and historians alike for the characterization of the hero and his companion, the imagery brought to mind when one of them is read, and the impressive length in relation to the time period it was written in. The similarities that these two epics share do not end with only those three; in fact, the comparability of these works extend to even the information on the author and the archetypes used. However, The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh contrast from one another in their writing styles, character details, and main ideas. Both epics weave together a story of a lost man who must find his way, but the path of their stories contrast from one another.
Classic Chinese and classic Japanese mythology are quite similar, in fact, they have more commonalities than differences. As examples, one can compare and contrast the two mythologies in terms of characters, form and structure, creation myths, and mythology’s relevance to life. Animals and dragons also appear repeatedly in Chinese and Japanese mythology. In this paper it will be shown that Chinese and Japanese mythologies are more similar than different.