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Comparing Whispering To Witches And So Hard To Say

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Whispering to Witches and So Hard to Say
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Introduction

During the marking period, I have read two books. One is called Whispering to Witches, by Anna Dale, and the other one is So Hard to Say, by Alex Sanchez. Some general similarities between the two books are that the stories are both about the main character discovering something new about either the world or himself, and they both have a teenage male protagonist. However, the most obvious similarity between the two books is definitely the latter, which is the main comparison point. Even though there are some similarities between the books, they are still fairly different. Now let’s dig into each story and see which one is better.

Whispering to Witches - Anna Dale

This is a fantasy novel about a young teenage boy called Joe who discovers that witches actually exist. He gets woven into the world of witchcraft and becomes close friends with a witch called Twiggy. He eventually helps Twiggy defeat the evil witch Logan Dritch and the ambitious mortal Lydia, who attempts to exterminate the witch population. …show more content…

For example, Joe explains what Logan Dritch has done to the enchanted rat by saying, “Then Logan Dritch grabbed her by the tail and threw her out of the attic window” (Dale 278). This clearly shows physical conflict and action within the book, and this is just one of the many action scenes in the novel. These action elements within the novel attract the reader’s attention, because people tend to get more excited over scenes like fighting than scenes like sitting down and reading a book. These elements keep the audience

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