You have heard of the short story, “A Day’s Wait”. You must also have heard of “Stolen Day”. If so, you might have noticed that the main characters in each story have lots in common. However, almost every two stories have their huge heaps of differences as well. The boy’s name in “A Day’s Wait” is Schatz. The boy in “Stolen Day” never mentions his name, so he’s the narrator. Here are a few differences between them:
One main difference is that Schatz was extremely selfless, while the narrator was very selfish. Moreover, when Schatz thought he was sick, he went out of his way to make sure that his parents didn't get sick. He got dressed and took care of his responsibilities before he rested, despite a headache and insistence from his parents not to do
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so. To make sure that they didn’t get sick, he closed his parent’s windows for them, and wouldn’t let them come into his room. On the other hand, the narrator thought that he wasn’t getting enough attention.
More specifically, when his mother didn’t go up to check on him, he got very upset. When he thought about dying of his sickness, he imagined his mother carrying him to the house, drying him off, and always paying plenty of attention to him. However, he didn’t once think about the fact that the fact that he wouldn’t know, because he would be dead the whole time!
Another main difference is that Schatz never complained, while the narrator constantly complained. More specifically, when Schatz’s dad came to check on him when he woke up, he said, “No. I’m all right.” Also, when his dad asked him again when he was in bed, instead of telling that about a million sad, horrible thoughts were circulating through his brain, or that he felt like he was about to explode with emotion, he just said, “Just the same, so far.”
Meanwhile, the narrator constantly complained about aching all over. He was also crying while he complained, and kept crying until he was sent home, which I personally view as deception.
He always updated you on how much he was hurting, and never once mentioned any of the kind, helpful things that everyone did for him while he was
sick. The last main difference is that while Schatz was thinking sad thoughts, the narrator was thinking happy thoughts. In other words, Schatz was waiting to die all day, and he was dwelling on it the whole time. He didn’t listen to the book his dad read him, or talk about his feelings, or even shift his position on the bed, all because he was too focused on waiting for death to take him. Furthermore, the narrator was sitting in his room, and thought about how much attention would be focused on him if he died. He imagined his mother carrying him all the way home, and then everybody fussing over him all day and night. He went fishing thinking about that when he caught a huge carp, and was incredibly excited, and started carrying the monster carp all the way home. While the two boys have many differences, they also have much in common. Here are a few ways that they are alike: The first example is that they both were sick for a day. Schatz had the flu, and the narrator had inflammatory rheumatism. Another example is that they both did something incredible. Schatz stayed calm when he thought that he would die, and the narrator caught a carp that was half his own height and weight! The last, and probably most significant, example is that they both got sick, and thought that they were going to die that same day. The main characters in each story have their share of differences. They also have a lot in common. I think that they both acted irrationally, mainly because they were sick.
While there are differences between Francis Ford Coppola’s film, Apocalypse Now!, and Joseph Conrad novel, The Heart of Darkness, Kurtz and his influence on the main character remain very similar. Both the movie and novel depict a protagonist’s struggle to travel upstream in a ship in search of a man named Kurtz. While doing so, Marlow (The Heart of Darkness)/Willard (Apocalypse Now!) become progressively fascinated with Kurtz. Kurtz is claimed to have a profound influence on his followers and is becoming a huge influence on Marlow/Willard as well.
Jonas and Truman’s stories are both about them, therefore they are the main characters. They are somewhat alike, but so much different. Both Truman and Jonas plan to escape. They want to know the truth. They want to escape to somewhere better. They both find out the truth, the giver told Jonas and Silvia told Truman. Truman didn’t understand until he sailed away. They are different though. For one, they are totally different characters, one is 12, who is Jonas, and Truman is older. They both want to find elsewhere, but Truman’s elsewhere is Fiji. They both are very curious too.
These two stories, although written by two different authors present similarities in the characteristics of the main character. Sammy and Tommy are presented with adversity they had previously never faced. Sammy has to decide should he stand up for the girls by quitting and be the hero or should he mind his own business and keep his job. Sammy is forced to quickly make a decision which his boss Lengel feels he made to rashly. “’I don’t think you know what you’re saying,’ Lengel said” (Updike, pg. 146). For Sammy his decision is what he feels he needs to do and he never regrets his choice. Tommy is faced with adversity of a different kind, he has to decide should he believe the teacher and listen to what she is saying or should he, like the other children, think she is strange and a liar. When she loses her job Tommy is forced to make a decision, confront the child who got her fired, or stay quiet and let the matter slide as it is not his problem. For both the boys their actions could be beneficial to them or it could cause them future problems. An example, if Sammy...
A fairly obvious comparison between these two stories is the setting in which they take place. Both occur in New England territory, mainly in the forests and hilly country. It also seems as if the land in each of the tales is rocky and hard to work. The geographical features of these lands sound much the same. In fact, each of the two takes place in an area very close to, if not in, Massachusetts. Tom Walker lives a few miles from Boston, while Jabez Stone lives in New Hampshire, near the area where that state meets up with Vermont and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster lives in Massachusetts, in a town called Marshfield. The geographical and cartographical similarities here show an obvious parallel between the two.
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
... Their attitude and tone is something that can be contrasted in the two stories.
Kurtz in both works is surprising very similar; in Apocalypse Now Walt Kurtz is a Colonel in the United States Army. Kurtz is a highly recognized and admired military officer, "Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers this country has ever produced. He was a brilliant and outstanding in every way…” and has a very successful career in the army (Coppola 1979). The Kurtz in Heart of Darkness is a successful business man, politician, and explorer. This Kurtz wears the mask of many faces but all the characters that mention Kurtz treat him like a god. It’s these traits that cultivate curiosity within Marlow and Captain Willard. Ma...
In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality of Scrooge also show you how he was at the beginning of the novella in the 1st Stave to how he changes at the end in the 5th Stave.
Firstly, at the end of this story, the narrator’s illusions are the most powerful pieces of evidence for his madness. It is his two illusions that betrays him and imposed him to confess the crime. His first illusion is the beating of the old man’s heart which actually did not exist. Initialy, exactly as he portrayed "My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears, it continued and became more distinct", the ringing he heard haunted him ceaselessly. Then he "found that the noise was not within his ear", and thought the fancy in his ear was the beating of old man’s heart. Because of the increasing noise, he thought the officers must hear it, too. However, in fact, everything he heard is absurd and illusive. And it proves that the narrator is really insane. Next, his second illusion is the officers’ "hypocritical smiles" which pushed him to completely be out of control. Losting of his mind, he called the officer "Villains". Apparently, he was confused and falsely thought "they were making a mockery of his horror" which irritated him intensively. Consequently, he told all the truth and "admitted the deed" in order to get rid of the growing noise. Therefore, the above two pieces of evidence both reveal the truth that the narrator is absolutely insane in contrary to what the narrator tried to tell us.
By examining Buchner’s narrative style, one can see that it is dissimilar to other German Romantics. Where Von Kleist seems journalistic in ‘The Marchioness of O..’ the narrative in ‘Lenz’ appears as if it has been disrupted by the protagonist. For example when the narrator states ‘but at this time he found it annoying that he could not walk on his head’ , one can allude that this is Lenz distorting the narrative with his madness. Helmut argues that ‘Madness cannot be contained within the straitjacket of traditional narration’ and believes that ‘to represent in its full fury means to displace the fundamental criteria of realistic representation.’ This suggests that Buchner disregarded the classical narrative style to make the madness of Lenz more believable. Helmut sees this as the ‘effacement of all differences between the narrators and protagonists perspective’ Therefore, one can infer that the protagonist and narrator have blurred which makes the narration more ambiguous. This makes the reader consider the reliability of the narrator but also makes Lenz seem realistically troubled. Helmut continues stating that Buchner has a ‘disregard for the linearity of time and for the three dimensionality of space.’ One can see this in the fragmented style of narration, which highlights Lenz’s experiences as spots of time. Moreover one can also see Lenz’s inabili...
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The narrator says “I am not sick” (Porter 77). Granny becomes angry as the doctor examines her because she thinks she is healthy when in actuality she on her death bed. The dreadful memories that Granny has been harboring in her mind for so long are contributing to her current mental state of scattered thoughts. The attitude Granny shows toward the doctor is hostile because of all the loss in her life. Granny keeps her faith although, but in her dying moment she asks for a sign from God. Granny kept her life in order but never has true devoutness towards God because of the guilt she felt and her incapability to forgive George. Memories that Granny represses impacts her negatively causing her not to live a life that she desired. Granny’s death at eighty years old was unexpected to her even though she been preparing for death since she was sixty. The amount of memories Granny still has to face keeps her drive alive to keep on living. Granny wants to live long enough to get over her humiliation and forgive
Kurtz's character is fully facet (in Conrad's Heart of Darkness), not because of his conventional roll of antagonist, but for his roll in a historical fiction as a character with important roll in society, influenced by those close to him. Kurtz makes some key developments in the way he interacts with others, in large part due to the words and actions of society and Kurtz's acquaintances.
...ion over. The settings vary significantly but vary to give the story meaning towards its origins. The plots are somewhat similar whereas the innocent come into contact with the villain, where the villain is always the loser. The characters always include the villain and the heroin. There will always be a way of contrasting folktales that have different versions, it's up to the students whom acquire the assignment of actual comparing and contrasting to actually literally achieve that tasks given.