Compare And Contrast Castaway And On The Sidewalk Bleeding Essay

Castaway and on the sidewalk bleeding are two stories that have differences and similarities. There settings and stories are different but they both have the same thing, hope and fear. They struggle and had to choose many hard decisions.
One thing they had in common was regret, Castaway was about a man named Chuck who took like and the time that came with it for granted. Until one day the plane he was on crashed, and he was forced to live on an island for four years. on the sidewalk bleeding was about a sixteen year old boy who was in a gang and didn’t realize he took life for granted until it was to late. On a ordinary he was walking and got stabbed by someone in another gang and in the end his decisions led him to death. The two men both lived in around the same time period. Chuck and andy both had girlfriends that they wanted to marry. Chuck never

Andy was on a side walk bleeding for less than an hour giving him not much time to think. Where as chuck was on an island castaway from human life and had four years to do a whole lot of thinking. In on the side walk bleeding andy would have done anything to live or be seen he didn’t have a chance and he knew is as he said “ hey, im alive! Hey, look at me! Im alive don’t you know im alive? Don’t you know I exist?” where in castaway chuck wanted to die he thought there was know chance for him but know matter how hard he tried he wasn’t able to “ I…I…I couldn’t even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing” one wanted to die and the other wanted to live the difference between the two was time and people. Andy could see people driving and walking by and with little time he wanted so badly to be save, chuck was alone and wanted so badly to die. Does time really change perspective? Is what you get out of putting the two stories side by