Compare And Contrast Sister Flowers And A View From The Bridge

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Sister Flowers and A View From the Bridge are two short stories with strong correspondence and likeness. In the story, Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou our narrator Marguerite, a young African American female gives the reader introspect of her life and how a scholarly educated and aristocratic woman named Mrs.Bertha Flowers has made an impact on the narrator's life. While in the story A View From the Bridge by Cherokee Paul Mcdonald a man talks about his encounter with a boy he met on a bridge. Both short stories from the choice of character comparisons with both Marguerite and the boy on the bridge , The author's theme,syntax and symbols to overall effectiveness of both narratives proves that these two stories are more the same as a sense to their overall message they are trying to communicate to the reader. Both Marguerite and the boy on the bridge have very similar character types in the stories. Both Marguerite and the Boy from the bridge have an internal conflict within themselves that not only grabs the attention of the adult figure within the two stories but the authors write it in a way that makes the reader feel sympathy and concern for these children. Marguerite with her traumatic experience with being raped, usually does not talk and keeps to herself throughout the book. When the boy on the bridge catches a fish in the ocean he comes up to the man he recently met and tells him “Could you tell me

In Sister Flowers in Marguerite's perspective Mrs. Flowers “..was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer ” (Angelou,164). From the man's perspective of the boy he also talks about his appearance. “He was a lumpy little guy with baggy shorts, a faded T-shirt and heavy sweat socks falling down over his sneakers.” ( Mcdonald,