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Short Story The Chair On Top Of The World

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In the two short stories “The chair on top of the world” by Stuart Baum and “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury, I will be comparing Tomas, the main character from “The chair on top of the world” and Margot, the main character from “All summer in a day”. I will be comparing what Tomas’s personality to Margot’s personality. In “The chair on top of the world”, Tomas, the main character attempts to find the chair that is on top of the world. In his journey, he meets a unicorn and 2 dragons that assist him on his quest to find the chair on top of the world. In the end, Tomas figures out that since the world is a sphere, Wherever he stands, he will most likely be on top of the world. “All summer in a day”, in this short story, Margot, a 4-year-old girl moves from Earth to Venus. 5 years later, she has grown tired of this planet’s heavy rain and wants to sun to rise. A few days later, she hears that scientists predict the sun will be finally coming out again. Margot becomes extremely excited. But the problem is that before the teacher gets to class, William the bully and his gang lock Margot in a closet and they go off to play in the sun. Then after 1 hour, the rain starts again. So the children gloomily unlocked the closet and let Margot out. That was those 2 stories. In my opinion, I like Tomas’s personality more than Margot’s because Tomas is braver than Margot, the role he plays is better than Margot, and Tomas gets along better with other characters than Margot does. One reason why I like Tomas’s personality is that he persevered until the very end. “It’s not up here,” said the tiny dragon. “Do you know where it is?” asked Tomas. The dragon shook its head. “Nope, sorry.” (6 Baum)The quote helps back up my statement because This was one of the challenges Tomas faced when he wanted to find the chair on top of the world. So Tomas went up to first the first mountain and the dragon told him that the mountain wasn’t on the top of the world. So this means that Tomas didn’t give up on sitting on the top of the world. At the end, Tomas finally accomplished his goal(sort of). “I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.” This was Margot’s poem. This quote helps me explain why Margot is not

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