Through the Tunnel and Big Boy Leaves Home have a multitude of differences, but at the core, they are incredibly similar stories. Through the Tunnel is, at first glance, simply a story of a young English boy who, despite the incredibly dangerous conditions, sets a challenge for himself. He wants, almost to the point of obsession, to swim through an underwater tunnel and prove himself as capable as the older boys. On the other hand, Big Boy Leaves Home is about an African American adolescent from the Deep South during the height of post-Civil War racism. It is a rather brutal account of Big Boy’s innocence being stripped away at the murder of his friends and his own accidental killing of the murderous white man. He then has to flee home, watch his surviving friend tortured to death, and even kill to survive. It may have only been a dog that he killed, but it truly illustrates how much he has changed over the course of the tory and how desperate he is. At the surface, these stories seem to have little similarity beyond the age and gender of the main characters. …show more content…
They both hear The Call in their lives and risk death to answer it. Although the Call comes from incredibly different sources, they both seem to be unable to do anything but answer it. Big Boy had the choice between leaving home or dying, but in Jerry’s situation it seems as though he could have very easily decided to ignore the tunnel’s challenge and remain with his mother. However, Through the Tunnel makes it clear that besting the tunnel was such a compulsion and obsession for him that stopping my not have been a possibility. The Call preyed on them in such a way that the boys were more or less forced into
The ending of Drums, girls, and dangerous pie was like a cliffhanger in a way. For example, Steven never finished his sentence, the story ended before he could. I liked the ending, because you could make up what Steven was going to say. Also, we never knew whether or not Jeffrey survives. Jeffrey was said to be in remission, and that means that so far he is cancer-free, but it could come back if he is not careful. The story ends where Steven is at his graduation, with Renee and Annette by his side. I really liked the ending, because Renee was mean to him in the beginning, but now she is nice to him and Annette. I also really liked how much closer both of them are to each other, like how Annette used to hate Renee in the beginning. Another
There is a popular saying that “opposites attract.” The statement is genuinely correct and relatable, despite the fact that many poets, book writers, and even celebrities do not agree. Several claim that opposites don't attract, and that only alike things are attracted to one another. However, this is untrue - for example, north poles attract south poles. They are similar, but yet, very different. In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny and Dally are attracted by their countless similarities and differences.
Although the stories’ main components mirror each other, they still differentiate. For example, in “The Devil and Tom Walker,” everyone believes Tom has made a deal with the devil, whereas in “Young Goodman Brown,” the author questions the actuality
The book and the movie of the Outsiders are two very different stories. The book has so much more detail then the movie. The movie is not the most detailed but it does get its point across. There are may similarities and also many differences between the two the book is by far more interesting and more detailed then the movie. I enjoyed the book a lot and the movies a lot but the movie was missing a lot.
Many have wondered how abusive people become that way, or how some people are driven to do impossibly kind things. Answering these questions can be very complicated. For example, Tom Sawyer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer grew up to be selfish and deceitful, but for the March sisters from Little Women ,it's almost the opposite in that they grew up to want to help people at their expense. Nobody is born with kindness, and more often than not, kindness or abusive and selfish tendencies come from experiences.
Is it possible for someone to love one person in their life and risk anything for them, even though they are completely different? S.E. Hinton makes this scenario possible in the book The Outsiders with two characters, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston. Johnny and Dally care about each other and place little value on their lives. They are different because they give Ponyboy opposing advice about how he should live, and are opposites when it comes to following the law. In S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are similar to each other, but they also have plenty of differences.
Imagine being separated into two different groups based on what side of town one lives on and what one wears, then imagine having to act a certain way when one feels a whole different way. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two groups, Socs and the Greasers, they have a rivalry with each other; the Greasers are known for having bad reputations that will never go anywhere in life and are poor, while the Socs can be disrespectful to the community, but an asset to the community the next day, and with a lot of money. In the novel, S.E. Hinton includes Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to focus on the poem’s deeper meaning. When examining Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, one can analyze the usage of color, lost of innocence, and identity change.
S.E Hinton’s, “The Outsiders” and Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s ,“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” are two young adult novels with greatly different stories yet support the same ideology. Both works focus on the lives of two teenage boys, Ponyboy, of Hinton’s novel, and Aristotle, of Sáenz’s. The story of Ponyboy takes place in the year 1969, and focuses on a huge but short period of his life. It tells about his struggle as an orphan under the care of his two older brothers and deals with gang violence, socioeconomic status, and death. Whereas, the story of Aristotle takes place during the 1980’s and covers a long period of his life and involves his experiences with his relationship with his hands-on parents, his sexual orientation, and struggling with his awkward years. There are many conceptions of what is appropriate for young readers, but these two novels defend that young people should be informed. By examining “The Outsiders” and “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”, this ideology of communicating mature topics to these readers is supported as the characters of both novels deal with the challenges of belonging, identity, and staying true to themselves, as well as reinforce the notion that adolescents can benefit from this knowledge.
In what way can two people that have grown up with the same lifestyle be so different but at the same time so similar. It seems unrealistic. However, in S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, two characters with such characteristics exist. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston are two greasers that at similar because they both place little value on their lives and have parents who don’t give them the attention they need. Despite the similarities these two have, Dally and Johnny have their own divergence from each other such as giving different advice and getting in trouble with the law. Thus, their lifestyle and way of living Jonny Cade and Dallas Winston have some unique differences and strong similarities.
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 characterization of Jerry illustrates the stages of maturing and becoming independent. In the beginning of the story, Jerry is depicted as young and immature. The immaturity of Jerry is shown when he is trying to capture the older boys’ attention. In order to capture their attention, “he began splashing and kicking in the water like a foolish dog.” This action conveys that Jerry is still immature, and wants to join the older kids. After seeing the boys pass through the tunnel, Jerry also wants to pass through in order to be a part of their group. In order
Dogs rarely die a shameful death, but instead fight to the finish. Using this dichotomy he further illustrates the severance of and between the hunter and the hunted. McKay emphasizes within the first three lines that the conflict at hand is not merely a struggle then, but a fierce hunt in which there is no mercy and only one survivor.
Along this difficult march, the narrator reflects on the life of the dog and remembers the not-so-bad characteristics of the family pet, “During our joint ordeal I had developed a grudging affection for our pet; he who’d been so quick to defend my kith and kin against the noise of passing trucks, who took loud notice of the squirrels outside, who held fast in the foyer, hackles raised, fearlessly barking, whenever company arrived at the front door (248).”
In the two short stories, Shooting an Elephant and the Things They Carried there are certain similarities and differences that George Orwell and Jimmy Cross hold. Each character in the short stories has there own different situation they are in, but they both are in a foreign land and they both have to take orders and do what there country is asking of them. However, even though each situation is different they both deal with some of the same emotional issues throughout each story.
Fairy Folk Tales are the most popular types of literature. The tale is an orally transmitted tradition by generations through the time; some events are changed to fit reality and society. Folk fairy tales deal with the dualism of the good and the evil. They are basing on a conflict between the good and the evil forces. The conclusion comes from aspirations of the human desire to achieve the justices. There are no known authors and sources for ancient literature. We have many versions of the story; they are credited by many authors later. Each tale is very like some other culture’s tale. Each culture has own tales, but all the tales are similar and different in some points. This essay will compare between two