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Comparative Essay between ‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ and Journey There are many similarities between ‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ and Journey as well as many differences. In this essay I would like to explore the themes and techniques that make these two stories unique and what elements they share. Firstly, if you compare the settings in both stories there is a significant difference, ‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ was set in Barbados whilst Journey was set in New Zealand. Although the places are large distances apart they were both set in a similar era:colonisation. In Journey it was the colonisation of New Zealand which minimised the space for its first settlers, the aborigines. ‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ is settled in the colonisation of Barbados. Both stories however focused on how much time and technology can change the environment, for example, In Journey there was a change of the lands appearance; “Now this strip here, it’s not really land at all, it’s where we used to get our pipis, any time or tide. But they pushed a hill down over it and …show more content…
‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ is all written in chronological order on the other hand there are multiple time skips in Journey which makes it difficult for the reader to follow at times. The narrators of the two stories are also vastly different, they are complete opposites. Journey is narrated in 3rd person but in the view of an old man rejecting death, ‘To Dah-duh, in Memoriam’ Is narrated by a 8 year old girl only beginning to experience life. The structure of the paragraphs also differs in the two stories. In Journey there are quick short thoughts that stray from the uniform structure of paragraphs, for example : “Taxi, It’s coming Uncle,...Business young fulla, Early bird catches the early worm.” In ‘To Dah-duh in Memoriam’ there is just a uniform structure of paragraphs that do not disrupt the flow of the
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