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Compare And Contrast Sea Devil And Edward's Rock

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Even though these two stories are set in different places, they both showcase similar themes and ideas. The short story, “Edward’s Rocks”, is about a boy named George who works as a fisherman. He goes fishing and encounters a problem with his navigation. He then has to think of a logical solution to fix the problem he faces. The short story, “Sea Devil”, is about a man fishing alone at night who gets into a tough situation and fights his way out. Both these stories have similarities and differences of setting, protagonists, and conflict. The setting in both “Edward’s Rocks” and “Sea Devil” share similarities while also having differences. “Edward’s Rocks” takes place in a small fishing village in Newfoundland while “Sea Devil” takes place in the Florida Bay. Both of these stories occur at night; in “Sea Devil” the character was, “in [his] rowboat [casting] his net” (Gordon, n.d., p. 1). Meanwhile in “Edward’s Rocks,” George was, “in the front of the boat” (Ritson,1997, p. …show more content…

George, the protagonist in “Edward’s Rocks,” is seventeen and a fisherman. While the protagonist in “Sea Devil” is assumed to be in his 20’s and has a hobby of fishing. George only has a third-grade education. While the protagonist of “Sea Devil” works a, “twentieth-century job” (Gordon, n.d., p. 1) where he has to use his brain quite often. These two characters had a problem at sea that they had to solve; George was on a fishing trip and almost hit, ”a wall of rock over twelve feet high” (Ritson,1997, p. 8). George solved this problem by searching the boat for what caused them to go the wrong way and found it. This allowed him to get on with the fishing trip. The protagonist from “Sea Devil” was casting when, “the sea exploded in his face [because]... of the… sea devil” (Gordon, n.d, p. 3). He solved this problem by fighting his way out of the depths of the ocean using barnacles to cut the rope that attached him to the sea

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