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The Noble Experiment By Jackie Robinson And Clara Barton: Battlefield

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Biographies and autobiographies both show events of someone's life just like the two somewhat similar stories like The Noble Experiment by Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett which is memoir about the conflicts Jackie Robinson had to face when he was going from the Negro league to the MLB and Clara Barton:Battlefield Nurse by Jeannette Covert Nolan which is documenting how Clara Barton was underestimated being a women and trying to be a battlefield nurse while in a form of a play. These both show similarities but these main difference are the genres of autobiography and biography.
For example in The Noble Experiment it shows the genre of Autobiography. One of the main reasons why it’s an Autobiography is because of how the story addresses Jackie Robinson. According to the text it states “I sat and watched him, not knowing what to until he began tearing at one hand and with the other - just as if he were scratching his skin off his hand with his fingernails. I was alarmed. I asked him what he was trying to do to himself.” Throughout the text it has key words that signify the P.O.V of the text is first person this manifests that this is an Autobiography because in Autobiographies is shows the inner feelings of the subject and it uses first person words to really materialize that. A second example in the story is how the …show more content…

In this case Clara Barton: Battlefield Nurse is researched and written by another person, and The Noble Experiment shows the personal thoughts and quotes of the MLB player Jackie Robinson this may be written by another person, but it is told by Jackie Robinson. Another similarity of the two passages is that they both have additional characters to intensify and boost the individual's prevailing passions and

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