Can you restructure this essay so it looks like an essay and not a poem. Also, you need to write about one of these three topics. We cover this in class. Choose one and go into depth about it. Get straight to the point with your thesis. You wander around with things like "while in some characters it is harder to see similarities or difference, in others it is easy. Nearly all characters can be compared and contrasted, even if it's obvious as they're both human or neither of them owns a et platypus." This is a lot of wasted space on ideas that are already understand. Give insights.
October 18, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Some authors base their characters off other's creations, while some think outside the box
and create their own masterpieces. While in some characters it is harder to see similarities or
differences, in others it is easy. Nearly all characters can be compared and contrasted, even if
it's as obvious as they're both human or neither of them owns a pet platypus.
Leonard Mead from "The Pedestrian" is a simple man who enjoys walking at night instead of
watching T.V.. Commander Barton is the captain of an EDS ship flying to deliver important
medicine to another planet in "The Cold Equations." Other than both they're stories are
futuristic, they don't seem very similar, but they are in some ways. Both characters don't like
the rules that have been set for them. Mead doesn't think he should go to jail for just walking
down the street after dark and Barton doesn't want to follow the law and kill a young stowaway
girl on his ship.
It is easy to see how the house from "There Will Come Soft Rains" and Henry from "The
Californian's Tale" are similar. They both are unable to understand that the people they are
missing aren't there anymore. Their lives go on just as if nothing had happened. The house
continues with its daily schedule thinking that its inhabitants are still living in it and actually
going along with the routine. Henry believes that his wife, who is most likely dead and has been
absent for 19 years, will be returning home shortly from a visit to her family. They are different
in that the house thinks that its missing people are still there and Henry who, except before
around the time of year that his wife had left and he still believes that she is at home with him,
knows she is gone but thinks she is still coming back.
Harrison Bergeron, from the short story of the same name, and the lawyer from "The Bet"
are also similar and different. They are the same because Harrison Bergeron does not want to
follow the rules made by the government, and believes that they are stupid, and the lawyer, at
the end of the story, believes that the laws made by our society are wrong. They both defy their
societies and openly oppose them. However, Harrison is against society even in the beginning
because he wants to be the best as he thinks he rightfully should be, whereas the lawyer comes
to a deeper understanding of life by the story's end and throws away his old life and the
accepted ways for an as worthwhile and meaningful life as he can have in this world.
Almost all characters can be compared or contrasted. For some, the points may be blatantly
obvious, but you can dig deeper than just external attributes, and find more meaning in them.
"Essay For Short Story Unit Final"
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Alexis,
Can you restructure this essay so it looks like an essay and not a poem. Also, you need to write about one of these three topics. We cover this in class. Choose one and go into depth about it. Get straight to the point with your thesis. You wander around with things like "while in some characters it is harder to see similarities or difference, in others it is easy. Nearly all characters can be compared and contrasted, even if it's obvious as they're both human or neither of them owns a et platypus." This is a lot of wasted space on ideas that are already understand. Give insights.
October 18, 2008 at 2:10 PM