Comparing The Red Umbrella And A Band-Aid For 800 Children

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The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” by Eli Sastow both show the subject of immigration, and how it affects families lifestyle and relationships. The author of these two texts use similar and different techniques to show immigration, and how the feelings of this affects the family. The Red Umbrella, and “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” both have similar techniques showing immigration and how the feelings of the reading affects the family and the situation.
In both passages, they both have family separation, in The Red Umbrella, Lucy and her brother are being sent to the US to do child labor. In “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” Sastow is helping over 800 children whose parents have been deported. Another technique is the tone, the tone is very serious because in The Red Umbrella, Lucy is very concerned of what her father is telling her and her little brother, all though when she finds out she’s outraged. Sastow is very serious because she cares for over 800 children and has to be strong for them and be …show more content…

In The Red Umbrella, the story is told from Lucy’s point of view, and it shows that she is upset and sad about the situation, being sent to the US away from her family. In “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” it is told from Sastow’s point of view, and Sastow is pretty calm and she’s older than Lucy, making the point of view more mature. In The Red Umbrella the story is taken place in the cuban revolution, causing it to be the past. In “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” it is told in the present (2014) and since then, a lot has changed. In The Red Umbrella, it is a story with a plot and a storyline, but it's also fiction. In “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” Sastow is a real person, who is helping out other children in the real world whose parents have been deported or cannot afford the

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