1906 Earthquake Analysis

Have you ever heard of the 1906 earthquake? Well, it was one of the biggest California earthquakes in history. There are two primary sources, by Emma Burke, and Fred Hewitt, that create a firsthand account of the earthquake. Both Burke and Hewitt lived through the deadly 1906 earthquake, and both experienced death, homelessness, and the casualties too great to describe. Burke wrote mostly about the aftermath of the earthquake, while Hewitt wrote about the actual earthquake as it happened.The eyewitness accounts, “Comprehending The Calamity” by Burke, and “Horrific Wreck Of The City”, by Hewitt have similar tension, but different setting.

The similarity between “Comprehending The Calamity” and “Horrific Wreck Of The City” is tension. On page

The earthquake had wedged it in the door-frame. My husband was pushing on the opposite side and I pulled with all my strength, when a twist of the building released it, and the door sprang open. We braced ourselves in the doorway, clinging to the casing.” The evidence shows the tension in both of the short stories, in Hewitts, it 's says that people really felt the tension, and same in Burkes story. The evidence proves that both the writers have pressure, and strain on the people and the city. The evidences mean that the earthquake was very tensionful. In Emma Burke’s case, she experiences tension during the earthquake in her house, and in Fred Hewitt’s case he experiences tension in the city, as all the famous historic buildings fall.The two stories similarly show pressure on the authors. On page 1, Hewitt states, “It is just possible that the most dramatic point in San Francisco when that terrible rumble began was in the immediate vicinity of that imposing pile, San Francisco City Hall, that structure that cost millions upon millions to rise and years of labor to accomplish.” Likewise, on page 1 Burke describes, “It grew constantly worse, the noise

Emma Burke was in the park during the earthquake, however, Fred Hewitt was in the city while the earthquake happened. The evidence also demonstrates that both the characters are in different context when the temblor sent everyone in an upheaval. They were both in different kinds of setting when the earthquake occured. On page 2 of “Horrific Wreck Of The City,” it states, “Looking up Golden Gate Avenue I saw tons of brick and stone on beam end and then plunge into the street below.” In contrast, in “Comprehending The Calamity,” it states, “I gave them food, and hastened to the Park through the gathering twilight, My husband and son had spread a mattress under the protecting branches of some bushes, with a great eucalyptus-tree towering over us.” The evidence explains that the both the writers were in very different environments when the earthquake did happen. When Golden Gate