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Comparing The Red Umbrella And A Band-Aid For 800 Children

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Our nation is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants come from all around the world and it's not uncommon to see legal and illegal ones anywhere you go. Some authors find that immigration is an important topic to discuss, thus immigration is a common subject between the two texts, The Red Umbrella and “A Band-aid for 800 Children”. The Red Umbrella seems to have a positive attitude about immigration and “A Band-aid for 800 Children” seems to have a negative tone about immigration. Though both stories are different in many ways, The Red Umbrella and “A Band-aid for 800 Children” both have many similarities. The Red Umbrella sparks off a positive tone about immigration but in a strange way. The only reason it is a positive tone is that the narrator knows she must immigrate in order to stay safe. In the story, we can tell that she has to do it by how the father is acting. They were going to war and the child’s parents wanted to keep her safe so they sent her off to America. The narrator didn't put up much of a fight because she knew it was for the best. Both of these examples from the text explain why she showed a “positive” tone towards the subject. …show more content…

“A Band-aid for 800 Children” portrays a negative tone due to the main character hating the idea of children being without their parents. The main character of the story works through difficult challenges and tasks every day for each child. She wakes up every morning to phone calls from children needing a home. Thus, she saved 812 children! If the main character didn't care about the children, she wouldn't have done all of these things. “A Band-aid for 800 Children” has multiple differences to The red umbrella, but that doesn't mean they aren't

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