Similarities And Differences In Literature

Have you ever thought that you were more similar than different from a person sitting in Uganda or Australia? Probably not, but actually this could be the unknown truth. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman and “Human Family” by Maya Angelou talk about two tremendously different topic, where one talks about the growth of a garden and the other talks about psychology of human families and people. But even with such a tremendous difference in topics, a common theme is shared by both pieces of literature. This theme is that everyone is different, but they have a major common similarity, which can sometimes be found through a passion. Paul Fleischman shows the readers this theme by describing the differences in people and showing how all of them had

Maya Angelou gets the theme across to the audience by showing how everyone’s life is different, but it is made up of the same ingredients. In stanza 25 of the poem it says “ We love and lose in China, we weep on England 's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores….. In minor ways we differ, in major we 're the same.” In other words in different places around the world people do different things, but have a main similarity in them. By saying “ laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores….. In minor ways we differ, in major we 're the same” it means that people that live in different places have different ways to express their emotions, but everyone have emotions. For example people in England get happy through the means of sports like cricket, while people in Finland get joy through watching winter sports like skiing. Even though people of both countries people

He shows the theme by showing how abstract people found a similarity through a passion. On page 50 of the book it said “Most were old. Many grew plants from their native lands- huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaican call calaloo, and many more. Yet we were all subject to the same weather and pests, the same neighborhood, and the same parental emotions toward our plants.”(page 50, line 8)Before going to the garden Nora and Mr. Myles did not know many people in their neighborhood, as pretty much of everyone in their neighbourhood were different. This is shown by saying “Many grew plants from their native lands- huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaican call calaloo, and many more.” For example some people of the garden came from caribbean countries, while others came from large countries like China. On the other hand some of the that came watched soccer, but others watched basketball. But after coming to the garden