Comparing two short stories -My brother?s keeper and Do angels wear

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Comparative analysis of two stories : "My brother’s keeper " " and Do angels wear brassieres?"

The two short stories that I am comparing are " My brother’s keeper" by Geoffrey

Philp and " Do angels wear brassieres?" by Olive Senior. "My brother’s keeper" talked

about history ,race , identity, friendship, family, age, motherhood and sexuality and how

they are defined around cultural and traditional positions. It is about a young man named

Paul and his account of the changes he went through dealing with a step brother he did

not even know existed until the very first day the boy showed up at their door . His step-

brother’s name was David and he was coming from America where he was lived with

his mother and father until their death. " Do angels wear brassieres?" is about little girl

named Beccka’s quest for knowledge and what she had to go through as a teenager living

with two females in one house .In this story I saw the relationships among family,

friendship, motherhood,voice, tradition, ethnicity and how these fit into the identity of the

individual in addition to their gender ,age and sexuality.

Although " My brother’s keeper" and "Do angels wear brassieres?" were written

by two different authors, they had a lot in common .Both of them were set in

the island country of Jamaica and were about single families. From the beginning, the

narrator in " My brother’s keep...

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