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Compare And Contrast The Lesson And Stand By Me

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Comparing and Contrasting “the Lesson” and “Stand by Me” In the stories “The Lesson” and “Stand By Me” there are obvious similarities such as slang, lack of authority, and ignorance. The contrast are setting, plot, and characters. In both stories the children characters use colorful language to express their feelings. Most of the conversations they have throughout the stories is told in slang. The narrator of “The Lesson” stated, “Sugar done swiped her mama’s lipstick, we ready.”(Bambara). In Stand by me when Gorde did bad in cards he shouted, “Piss up a rope!”(King). These characters use slang and colorful language because they have been exposed to it.
Throughout both stories the juvenile characters lacked authority. In “The Lesson”, the kids had their teacher Miss Moore, but she did not have full control of …show more content…

In Stand by me the boys had to worry about Chris’s brother Eyeball and his friend group. The group would bully and harass them. In the lesson no other characters have conflict with the main ones.
The difference in setting made the two stories stand out. The setting of “The Lesson” takes place in Harlem, New York around the 1960s. The kids go to a toy store in Harlem along with parks within the city. The setting of Stand by me is in the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon. It is a rural place and everyone knows each other. The boys find themselves traversing railroad tracks and woods to get to the remains. The setting has a impact on the comparison of both stories plot.
“The Lesson” takes place in Harlem which is an urban city. In the plot the characters use a cab to get around the city; they go to a lavish toy store and go to the city parks. However, In “Stand By Me” The setting is rural and the plot revolves around it. The boys do not have public transportation, so they have to walk all throughout the story to get to places. They travel through the woods because no roads lead them to their

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