Are The Similarities Between Sticks And Growing Up Hmong In Laos And America?

All of the stories are very similar because each person is content with their culture, but sometimes feel out of place. For example, in “The Green Killer,” Alan shows that he is jealous of Blaze when he states, “the brilliant, dazzling Blaze Dunn, seventeen; and yours truly, Alan Dunn, sixteen, average,” which compares his average lifestyle to Blaze’s “perfection.” This story is similar to the conflicts in “Tiffany, age Eleven” when Tiffany includes she felt insecure when she once scored the highest in karate, but the first-place trophy was given to another white girl on the team. Both of these stories also show connection to, “The Cutting of my Long Hair.” In this story an Indian girl felt “like sinking to the floor” because she felt insecure

Though the plot of the stories differs, one concept persists in both texts

In life, people face the pressures of conformity in their everyday lives from school, to just going shopping for clothing. Throughout literature, protagonists face the pressures of conformity in their lives no matter the age of the character. Both The Giver by Lois Lowry and Number Twelve looks just like You by John Tomerlin deal with pressures of conformity, but they do so in different ways. Both texts are similar because both protagonists want or try to escape the conformity that is within their communities. “In Number Twelve looks just like You”, Marilyn knows that conformity in her community is wrong.

In “The Field of Life and Death”, Xiao Hong uses the characters’ suffering and symbolism to demonstrate the breaking of traditional male and female roles. As Howard Goldblatt mentions in the translator’s introduction, “the villages’ fatalistic attitudes and repeated mention of the four distresses (birth, old age, sickness, and death) are unquestionable” (xiii), Xiao Hong represents these distresses with the main female characters without reservation in the process of childbirth, aging, disease, and death. Through childbirth, men shrink from responsibility 1. Childbirth and responsibly 2. Old Age and 3.

in this ethnic group. · The Appalachian culture is dominantly patriarchal. The women and men both of this culture have roles. The males of the family tend to make the major decisions in the family; however the women have a strong influence on the family too. The women are the nurturer of the family and provide care at home.

In the book The Grapes of Wrath, it portrays many of the experiences being lived in the Great Depression and the Dust bowl. But, it also portrays some of the many lives being lived in the modern age today. The book makes a powerful draw to many of the readers due to the fact that America was once in this position; that almost every family was in this position during the Great Depression. Even today in the modern age, most of readers have been through the struggles of trying to survive or what their family members had to do for a better life. The book gives a lot of connection and shows deep meaning that people understand the most.

In the essay “What Is This Thing Called Family”, Lee Herrick reflects his life as a Korean adoptee raised by a Caucasian couple in America. He suffered a difficult life when he was a child because of the differences of his physical attributes from his sister and parents. Through the essay, Herrick has a chance to express his ideas about family and what family means to him. Everyone has something called a family but whether the definition of the family of each person is the same or not is debatable. I also have my own idea about family which I think is similar to Herrick’s opinions in the essay.

How can two different characters from two different stories have something in common? In this essay I am going to compare and contrast . I am going to comparing and contrasting My Brother Sam Is Dead written by James Lincoln with Colony Of Fear written by Lucy Bledsoe. In this essay to be discussing are Characters and Conflicts in the novels. To demonstrate, In My Brother Sam Is Dead, Tim is the main character.

The commonality that these two stories is the use of characterization

The stories The Alchemist and The Pursuit of Happyness have a similar main character. Santiago the main character of The Alchemist is similar to the Chris Gardner of the movie The Pursuit of Happyness in several ways. Santiago is a young boy who dreams of traveling the world. Whereas, Chris Gardner wanted to become something more with his life. The two characters have very different dreams, but they have something quite similar.

Daisy G. Popular Mechanics Lamb to the Slaughter In the short stories, “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Raold Dahl includes both stories have lack of communication that can lead to disasters. The husbands are leaving their wives, the main character have committed an accident that leads to tragedy. The setting takes place at home and the stories finishes off with a cliffhanger so we don’t know what happens at the end.

Lois Lowry’s the Giver was published in 1993. It tells a story of the life of Jones who lives in a highly controlled community in the future. Considered as “dystopian literature”, the plot includes assigning children, release, social engineering and genetic engineering. Jones’ society sometimes reflects old China, which has some comparability. Both have extensive government control and less freedom to choose individually.

The two essays that I will be comparing and contrasting in this essay are the two short stories, The Veldt, and The Lottery. I will be going over the similarities as well as the differences. I will also be finding the common theme, and each element the stories share. These two stories that i’ve read over the past six weeks in my honest opinion there not alike at all but I will explain why throughout this essay.

In their presentation, my classmates taught about the culture of the Vietnamese people and the family structure. I learned that the father of a family is the one who is supposed to provide everything for his family. Also, the women and girls of a family should obey their brothers and father. Traditionally, an elder sister must do what pleases her younger brother.

In the excerpt “Life of Pi”, “The Lost Island of Tamarind”, and “The Story of Keesh” they are all in an extreme environment that takes a lot of strength and mental strength. It takes a lot more mental strength than physical strength because there’s a meaning behind why your trying to stay alive, and what’s the purpose of doing all of this. They are many reason’s why these people are trying to survive. To begin with the excerpt “Life of Pi” and “The Story of Keesh” they both have many similarities.