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'The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh'

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Learning History in Different Ways Exasperating can describe the way siblings fight. They both have a different side of the story and different information from the situation. The constant back and forth of who is right. Not to mention, some kind of justification or maybe a different approach is happens a lot between siblings. The same way siblings may fight connects to the topic of learning history through literature compared to informational text. The way two authors may write or how they see something is just one way informational text and literature text can be different. In the fictional story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury, Joby an young 14 year old drummer boy is a run away. Also in the informational text, “Battle of …show more content…

As an example from “The Drummer Boy” of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury, “In the April night, more than once, blossoms fell from the orchard trees and lit with rustling tops on the drumskin. At Midnight a peach stone left miraculously on a branch through winter flickered by a bird, fell swift and unseen. Struck once like panic, which jerked the boy upright” (Bradbury 318). Already stated from the text is how the literature information is not accurate. Nothing from this is facts from the Civil war. Throughout the text it tells a story from that time and what it could be like, the actual story does not have the basic facts as would a informational text would. On the other hand, from an informational text, “Battle of Shiloh”, “The Battle of Shiloh began at sunrise on April 6, 1862 -- the Sabbath -- as 44,000 Confederate soldiers swooped down on an unsuspecting Union Army encampment near Pittsburgh Landing, a nondescript hog-and-cotton steamboat dock on the Tennessee River.” This is a clear fact with numbers involved. So this tells the reader what was going on and does not have any made up people to fill in the story. It is just simply what had happened. So all in all when comparing two texts one from literature and and informational text they differ in how the reader can learn about the

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