Comparing & contrasting Tree-ear and Ruckel
Throughout the article Orphans’ lonely beginnings reveal how parents shape a child’s brain and the book A Single Shard there are many similarities and differences. Both Tree-ear and Ruckel are orphans, yet grew up in different ways and environments. At young ages both Tree-ear and Ruckel were abandoned therefore were left as orphans. Tree-ear did not have his biological parents to raise him but he was taken in but a man named Crane-man. Ruckel, without his biological parents either, was taken in too yet he was taken in by an orphanage, which is a total difference. In the orphanage Ruckel did not get much pleasant one-on-one interaction with people. But for Tree-ear he got a lot of one-on-one interaction with Crane-man, because Crane-man genuinely cared for Tree-ear. Not so much like the orphanage. However, Ruckel did have a parent figure for so time, yet she was taken from him at a young age which forced him to grow up without a guardian. With each of their situations and
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It states “Without someone who is a reliable source of attention, affection and stimulation, he says, “the wiring of the brain goes awry.” The result can be long-term mental and emotional problems.” And goes on to say other problems like anger and rage. Ruckel (an orphan) felt these emotions because he did not receive the affection from a parent as a child. Tree-ear even being an orphan does not have these emotions quite like Ruckel. From what the readers know about Tree-ear they can grasp he is a well-educated and well-taught boy. He has respect, manners, and many other things children learn. Ruckel, although an orphan too, does not have many of these qualities. In the book A Single Shard, Tree-ear knows the distinction between right and wrong because Crane-man thought