Whether you’re an animal in a cage or a boy on the last day of school, freedom is important. This is the theme of the passage from Boy’s Life written by Robert McCammon and the story “Emancipation: A Life Fable” written by Kate Chopin. The passage is about a boy named Cory who is in class on the last day of school, so eager to be free and “A Life Fable “ is about an animal who was born in a cage which eventually is opened and the animal leaves and realizes it's happier than before. These two stories both come to the same theme of how important freedom is, but in different ways. These two stories seem so different, but they have some similarities on how they come to the conclusion of freedom. To start, there are many differences. For one they approach the theme with two different settings. The setting in Boy’s Life was a classroom and the setting of “A Life Fable” is a cage. The setting plays a huge role because it’s what the main characters are trying to get away from. The …show more content…
One similarity between the two stories is they both show that no matter if it’s getting out of a cage, out of school, or even out of an uncomfortable pair of pants, freedom is so much better than without, and even if you don't desire it, it will change your life or your day, depending. Another similarity between them, is that they both come straight out with the theme. In Boy’s Life they come out and say it when the author says, “I ran out along the corridor, my arms unencumbered by books, my mind unencumbered by facts and figures, quotations and dates.” This shows you upfront the boy was very happy to be free. In “A Life Fable” this is shown when the author states, “So does he live, seeking, finding, joying, and suffering.” This also states very clearly even though the animal went through hardships freedom was better. These are most of the similarities between the two stories and how the approached their
The similarity and connection existing between the two stories is the point of view in the two essays. The stories are both written in the first person perspective and that
The similarities between the two stories speak of life's lessons and the sometimes-painful road we have to take in order to gain life
In the stories “ Amira’s song ” and “ The Boy who Fought Hitler ” the main characters Amira and Ben had two different stories. “ The Boy who fought Hitler” is About a Jewish boy named Ben who was living through the Holocaust. So he ended up being apart of a partisan group and living through the Holocaust. “ Amira’s Song” was about a girl who moved from Syria And has a “Diversity” night for her school and was forced to do Syria for the project. She ends up showing braveness to perform on the stage. Ben and Amira both show bravery in the same and different ways.
In brief, Story of a Life and Tzili are parallels to one another. In his memoir, Story of a Life, Appelfeld addressed his perfect home life and lack of exposure to Jewish culture. Whereas in Tzili she was extremely mistreated by her family and given the opportunity to study with a Jewish tutor. Both, however felt inferior at school, Appelfeld because he was Jewish and Tzili because she was not considered scholastically
n my mind this means in you can grant someone with freedom, do not worry about getting it yourself you do not deserve it. These two stories affected me because I value having my freedom. All the similarities and differences are related to the way the society runs and it’s lack of freedom. Within this essay, I am going to tell you about how the book Anthem and the movie The Island are similar and different.
Night and Life is beautiful are similar and different in many ways. They both show the views of someone during the Holocaust. Elie and Guido evolve by not thinking about their actions at the end of the stories they both think about how their actions will affect them. Elie’s conflicts are smaller than Guido’s, such as Elie only having to take care of him and sometimes his father, while Guido has to think about his whole family. Both of the stories involve the Holocaust, except Elie’s story focuses on just Elie, while Guido’s story focuses on the other characters
For example, Night and Life is Beautiful are both centered around their similar themes. Their common theme is that when someone has another person to love and something to hope for, they are capable of incredible things. In Night, Elie and his father’s love and hope depend on each other. As long as they were both alive, Elie as well as his father had a reason to stay alive and maintain their hope. But once Elie’s father died, the one person Elie could put his love and hope into was gone. In Life is Beautiful, Guido’s family all depend on each other. The father depends on his son and wife; the son depends on his mother and father; and the mother depends on her son and husband. They each put a little bit of their hope and love into each other. So, when Guido dies, a little part of his wife and son dies as well taking a small part of their hope and love with him. Another similarity between these two fascinating stories is the father-son relationship. As stated in the previous similarity, they rely on each other. However, these two relationships are different within their similarity. Between Elie and Chlomo, Elie’s father, they had a strong relationship that kept them going through everything. At one point, Elie even helped his father get the marching pattern right so Chlomo would not get hurt. Also, Elie gave his bread to his father even when the more logical thing to do was to keep it for himself since he was obviously the only one who had a chance at life then. In this
A difference that theses stories have are the tricksters. In “How Stories Came to Earth” the trickster is a Spider. He tricks the animals into his traps. In “Master Cat” the trickster is a Cat. He tricks the King into thinking the poor peasant boy was a wealthy landowner. In “How Stories Came to Earth” the goal that the spider had benefited society. In “Master Cat” the goal that the cat had only benefited him and the poor peasant boy. Another interesting difference that these trickster tales had is the outlook on women. In “Master Cat” women were a prized possession and in “How Stories Came to Earth” women were equal to men. Each of the tricksters personalities are different; in “Master Cat” he is selfish and a lier and in “How Stories Came to Earth” he deals with the sky-god honorably.
The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.
The main reason that these stories are alike, are that they relate to women. Whether you are a daughter, or a wife, changes are you can relate to
In conclusion, both stories have a lot in common, so also do they have a lot of differences which include the young boys’ personalities, the setting of the stories, and their epiphanies. The boy in Araby is described as his old self in a recurrence since the narrative is a much older version of the protagonist. The boy in A&P however has an immediate understanding which is very brief and short compared to that in Araby. The boy in Araby had his epiphany by going on a challenging mission and facing the adversities whereas the character in A&P had a moment of realization unpredictably after making a wrong decision in life. Also both authors were born in different decades which contributed to the differences of both stories, they were also born
The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom
Freedom. A goal. A liberty. A myth. So many descriptions for a single concept. Yet the main idea is the same: to be free of restrictions, free to be whatever you wish. It is a life necessity, one that was, unfortunately, and still is, restricted throughout history, resulting in many chasing after its acquisition. Humans currently live in a time, in several nations, where freedom is a right, a necessity of life freely given. However, throughout history, freedom has been kept to only a minority, resulting in individuals struggling to change society for freedom to be distributed to the majority of people, a battle that took years, centuries to accomplish. This fight for true autonomy took many forms, both violent and peaceful. Literary works, in particular, have been major agents to this cause, serving as both reminders of those struggles and remembrance to readers of the endeavors those authors sought to accomplish. Two particular works, The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, spearheaded movements for freedom by tackling the prejudice of gender roles, expressing through their novels’ characters and experiences the arguments for individual freedom and the challenges that must be conquered to achieve those goals for future generations.
Personally, the importance of one’s freedom in life is drawn upon by the lives of my grandparents. Although my maternal grandmother and grandfather are 75 and 77 years of age, respectively, they continue to live fulfilling and productive lives. It is not to be said that they have not suffered from problems related to aging, such as my grandfather suffering from severe arthritis, but they value their freedom to continue living their own lives more than anything. The true worth of their ability to write their own stories is most evident in the fact that they are motivated to continue to write them throughout old age.
The difference about both stories is that Boy’s Life talking about a human being in school. Emancipation: A Life Fable is shown how an animal is a cage. The animal had to make a hard decision about to stay in its cage or leave to see what happening in the door. Boy's Life is talking about being the first day of school and they still have school.