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Angela Franklin Professor Ginfrida ENC1101 22 April 2013 Neat Vs. Sloppy In Suzanne Britt's "Neat People Vs. Sloppy People" and Dave Barry's " Batting Clean Up and Striking Out" both author's examine just complicated human relationships can be considering how many types of personalities are out there. They both share certain literary elements, but differ immensely in the realms of tone, thesis and organization methods. Barry and Britt share many similarities in their literary elements. Literary elements are symbols and allusions. …show more content…

Which shows that while women make cleaning priority men on the other, take sports as a priority. As far as thesis goes, Britt's thesis was a bit vague; having little or let's say no detail at all. Britt states that "the distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people"(255). She never gives detail on that point of why exactly they are considered meaner and lazier than others. Britt leaves her audience trying to figure out where she's going with that assumption of neat people. However, when Barry comes in with his split thesis he states clearly in his first paragraph that " The primary difference between men and women is that women can see extremely small quantities of dirt" (261) which, shows that he is about to go into detail of why he made that statement about women. Then he goes on to say in the second part of his thesis that “the opposite side of the dirt coin, of course, is sports" (262) and that, he goes on to explain is the area where men tend to feel most sensitive. In that part he goes into detail of why men are the way they are when it comes to the subject of cleaning. With the split of Barry's thesis he gives the reader a reason why he makes the certain statements which, gives his essay a laid back feel where you kind of know where things could possibly be going. In addition to the many things Britt and Barry differ on, they also

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