Aunt Melba

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The similarities in these two passages are very alike they both are talking about two young women called “Jamie” and “Aunt Melba”. In other words The passage “Aunt Melba” is about a woman who already is a Aunt, It happens to be that every Thanksgiving the family gets together At the Grandmother’s house in Indiana. After all Jamie is a thirteen year old girl, she is a girl who thinks she is very different from others. In the Meantime while Jamie is having mixed feelings about herself “Aunt Melba” is living in alaska in a boat that landed on dry-land. The Differences are all around the story! Jamie isn't celebrating Thanksgiving in Indiana in the Grandmother’s house she is feeling bad about her personality. Meanwhile Aunt Melba feels that she needs to have all the attention on Thanksgiving like if she didn’t have enough already. It was like Jamie’s theory about the radio: that there were miniature people who crawled into the radio in the house, or in in the car, bright and early in the morning. All day long they talked about music, played advertisements, gave away prizes, joked about the news, and best of all, played some of her favorite song over and over again. …show more content…

Jamie Knew now how silly her theories sounded. How she knew better. She had learned about electricity, radio frequencies, and audio transmissions. Jamie tried to show her mother that she was too smart for her current school. Her mother didn’t believe her. “Why can’t you just say you’re feeling sick, like regular kids? “Her mother asked, laughing her loud,throaty laugh. Jamie didn’t understand. She wasn’t trying to get out of school because she didn’t like learning, she just wanted to learn new things, things that none of her teachers in school seemed to have the time to teach

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