A Single Shard and “Orphans’ Lonely Beginnings” share the experience of two orphans. A Single Shard reveals a fictional character who was raised by a single male. On the other hand, “Orphans’ Lonely Beginnings” reveals a non-fictional orphan who has been raised by many parent figures who have brought him back to the orphanage. Even though neither of them were raised by their biological family both had a great family in the end. The fictional character known as Tree-ear in A Single Shard and the orphan in “Orphans’ Lonely Beginnings” both have a variety of things in common one big thing being neither of them live a normal childhood where they run around and play with other kids their age. Both have several responsibilities some being they need take care of other people. Tree-ear must take care of crane-man and Ruckel was put in charge of the other kids at the orphanage. Another reason they had an abnormal childhood was because neither had the proper family. An example being tree-ear grew up with a male that was not related to him and Ruckel grew up with no family plus a lot of kids that had …show more content…
Another big thing that separates them is Tree-ear was healthier than Ruckel. It’s easy to tell because Ruckel had gotten polio at a very young age, while nowhere in the book does it say Tree-ear had any kind of major sickness. The very last thing that makes the two boys special is Tree-ear was really the only one out of the two of them had a purpose. His purpose was to care for Crane-man, because without tree-ear crane-man probably would not be able to survive since there are so many things he either does not want to do or he cannot do. On the other hand, Ruckel was just one of those kids who had to do whatever he was told and did not really had a