How Is The Machine That Won The War Similar

Compare and Contrast Essay

Short stories. Sometimes they can be a teaching moment, a look inside the author’s head, thought process and feelings, an ode to a historical event, or just for fun. With the two short stories I will be comparing and contrasting today, you will notice the similarities and differences in literary devices, foreshadowing, characters, and overall meaning of the stories. The first story is vastly different from the second but somewhat similar in an odd way. The second story is different from the first in other ways that you wouldn’t think, and similar in a couple ways. I hope when I am done writing this essay, you will be able to look inside the minds of the authors who wrote these short stories, and be

“The Story of An Hour” and “The Machine That Won the War” are both widely different in setting and characters, but are similar in ways of literary devices because they both exhibit examples of irony and foreshadowing. In both stories, there are examples of irony that I am sure you didn’t catch the first time reading it, because I know I didn’t the first time. In “The Machine That Won the War”, as the story progresses, you think that the machine, the world’s largest super computer called the Multivac, is responsible for the victory of the war because it is a high tech machine that used data and math, but when one of the 3 main soldiers, Lamar Smith says to the other two, “heads or tails, boys?”