The essay will outline the many differences and similarities between the two books, looking at three key themes. The thesis statement for the essay is: The themes of Life, Death & Historical interactions are all in the books however they are portrayed quite differently. The thesis statement suggests that although the themes are in both books they are not in the shown in the same way. The reason that there are many similarities and differences in the themes is that both characters are very complex and different.
Death
Death is usually just around the corner for the protagonists even if they don't accept it they don't see it. There is an abundance of times when the protagonist is feeling lonely or sad and then receives ill will. For example, when Michael stays home for a long time and doesn't see his friends he is then told that his sister is having an operation. "Dad. What are they going to do? I heard the sighing, the fear in his voice. They're operating on her heart, Michael."- pg 129. The excerpt above is one that really hits you in the heart and makes you feel really scared for Michael. The feeling when you are told that death may come to someone who has only been in the world for such little time is a scary one. My sister was four days old when I was told that, that day she was going to have an open heart surgery. This connection with Michael really lets you understand what a rough time he is having. On the other hand Kit's wilderness is a lot more spooky than familial. The idea of death is much scarier and the antagonist is constantly playing with it. although the creepier sense of death in the book you can still see that death and kit's family mean a lot to him. Near the end of Winter kit's grandfather starts to fall ill and Kit is afraid that he will lose him during a hard time trying to find a missing friend. " A visit to grandpa again."..."He stared at us and through us. But he sat straight, his hands didn't tremble, there was light in his eyes."- pg 157. Many people experience the same feeling of sadness when visiting a grandparent at a hospital. The feeling of sadness and lost hope, the knowledge that you cant save them.
Life
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They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they 'd say. Offed, lit up, zapped while zipping. It wasn 't cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors. When someone died, it wasn 't quite dying, because in a curious way, it seemed scripted, and because they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself. "
As gloomy as death may seem, in the two stories mentioned, characters whom are close to the deceased family members don’t really feel much except for indifference. In “The Veldt”, Peter and Wendy Hadley both work together to set their parents up for impending death, essentially murdering their parents.
While each story had their contrasting elements, the base theme of each was remarkably similar; Both of the authors manipulate the theme of motherhood to examine the ideas of slavery, home and forgiveness during two very different time periods.
The way that Death communicates with the reader helps them to see many sides of the narrator. Such as their remarks in the beginning of the book, “A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?”. They are trying to tell the reader this, so that they aren't frightened later in the novel. Their emotions fluctuate as humans emotions do causing the reader to feel a relation to Death.
Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank had many similarities and differences in their lives during the Holocaust. This essay uses Night by Elie Wiesel and a play about Anne Frank to make its points. They have a similar topic and use mood similarly. However, they use motivation and point of view differently. Night and this play are very different and similar at the same time.
Thesis-In this essay I will take the time to review two stories both of the fiction nature. I will discuss the conflicts of both stories as well as the plot structure. I will talk about the characters and give my point of view. Both stories are very thought provoking which should make this very interesting to compare and contrast.
The goal with these three works is to take a deeper look at how betrayal is dealt with individually, compare the differences with betrayal, and finally compare the similarities with how betrayal is shown across all three works.
While the viewpoints and lives of the authors vary greatly between the two books, it is important to note that they do in fact contain many similarities. I would even argue that
War is not the only thing that changes, it also changes the people that are in the war. When contrasting the two books, there are several differences that keep the reader interested. When finding the similarities, one could almost say that one was copied from the other. There are numerous contrasts in these books; however, there is a large portion of similarities in these books.
The themes between the two narratives gives a guide to the reader on the focus for the author, which enables the reader to learn different views and have different emotions while reading the narratives.
The idea of a comparative analysis essay is to strengthen ones understanding of a particular work by reading two different texts side by side. The purpose of reading two texts at the same time is to give the reader a better idea of what each story is implying. Having another text to compare each of the stories to make for a more clear analysis of them. After analyzing Gabriel Garcia’s Death Constant Beyond Love and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis side by side it was evident that each story presented the feeling of solitude.
Thesis: Death is the main theme of both short stories and both authors portrayed this dark and dreary idea as a game the characters are playing.
Both of these works have very similar narrators. By just reading the works, they seem very different because of who they killed and why, where and with whom they lived, and how they murdered their victims. But, by analyzing the two men, they become more and more alike. They both tell their stories in the first person and write from their jail cells. Each chose to reference an animal in their stories. The two men, both hide the corpses in the structures of the homes. Likewise, the narrators try to defend their sanity by logically justifying their horrific actions based on their mental states throughout the flashbacks of the events.
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•Compare the three works in terms of form, content, and subject matter. Using the terminology and concepts that you have learned in the course, explain the similarities and differences in the styles of the works and the context in which they were made. Compare and contrast their aesthetic qualities and symbolic significance, as well as the artists’ points of view. Your personal point of view that you have developed throughout the paper