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A Stolen Day Short Story

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Parents are always fond of telling tales of when their children were young and had some silly misunderstandings. Two stories from about 100 years ago also tell of children’s simple, yet funny misconceptions. The story A Day’s Wait is written by Ernest Hemingway and is in the perspective of the father of his son. It is about the little son, named Schatz, who has come down with the flu and the father is wondering why Schatz in acting weird while recovering. Turns out Schatz thought he was going to die, due to a high fever. This misunderstanding happened because he got confused with the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius. A Stolen Day by Sherwood Anderson has a different story, is about a boy who believes he has inflammatory rheumatism because of his aching, but doesn’t really. He convinces himself to believe it though, and ends up making himself feel ridiculous. There are several similarities to these stories, yet there is still a numerous amount of distinctions. A correlation to the stories is that both boys assume they will die. The story A Day’s Wait states,” He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o 'clock in the morning.”(A Day’s Wait)This verifies that Schatz contrived the accusation that he was progressing to death. The Boy from A Stolen Day also presumes he will soon die. “It affects the heart," Father had said. That frightened me when I thought of it. "I might die," I thought. "I might just suddenly die right here; my heart might stop beating,” explains the text.(A Stolen Day) This demonstrates that the Boy also believes he was …show more content…

Both the stories, A Day’s Wait and A Stolen Day tell funny misunderstanding of boys. There are many similarities such as that they both thought they were about to die and that the parents are concerned for their boys’ attitudes. However, there are still differences like what their misconceptions are and how they react to attention. Next time that a parent tells a story like this, these stories

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