Compare And Contrast Don T Judge A Book By It's Cover

Judging people on their looks or surroundings could hurt someone more than you think it would.Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon’s novel, Zora And Me Can relate to Orlando Belo’s poem, Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover because they both have the same theme of Don’t Judge. Both of these authors really show why not to judge, however there are some major differences between this poem and novel. Bond and Simon show this theme as being the ones judging, while Orlando makes the reader be the one who has been judged. Also, Belo shows his point through lots of figurative language in his poem while the girls don’t use as much literary devices in their novel, but instead use strong words and language.

Judging people on their looks or surroundings is unfair to the victim, and both Belo and The Girls prove this point in their literature. For example, in Belo’s Poem, he shows reasons why not to judge and what will happen if you do judge, while he also says, “My appearance is a shield of defense”stanza:3, which shows that he is stronger now than before. At the same time Bond and Simon show a character that is being accused and judged on something they may not have done, and

the judgment has only come to them because of their surroundings, and not because of what has actually happened. Both of these authors show us that judging someone by their looks can only result in something bad, because the judgment isn’t based on something worthy to be accurate.
Although both the novel and poem have a lot of things they can relate to about, there are still some differences, and one of the differences is how they are written, because one is written as the predator and the other as the prey.

The predators are found in Zora and Me, In which a group of 3 friends spread the word that the man living alone, quiet, and suspicious by a lake is a gator-man. One thing that these friends say is, “It was Mr. Pendir who killed him!” which shows them blaming him for no reason. This pushes the whole town to think he is a gator and he ends up hurt and lonely. However, In Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover,the speaker is the person being judged. He shows this by saying not to judge him anymore and that even though he has already been hurt, he has recovered and is even stronger than

before.
Another difference between the two is what the authors use to write them, such as the figurative language and words or phrases of the literature. In Belo’s poem, he uses figurative language such as personification, metaphors, and repetition. For example, one of the personifications are, “appearance tells a lie”-stanza 3. These literary devices help progress the poem and show the theme to the reader in many different ways, which helps us understand the poem better. On the other hand, Bond and Simon used strong words such as the N word and incorrect grammar to really explain what is going on and make it feel like a real life situation, while at the same time propelling the theme to us readers.
Both the Novel and the Poem showed some of their differences, but overall they showed the same theme and expressed the same topics among the works of literature. They both show why not to judge someone on their appearances but to truly think of them by their real attitudes and personalities. Therefor the authors did a fantastic job of portraying this theme throughout their chapters and stanzas.