Comparing Band-Aid For 800 Children And The Red Umbrella

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The nonfiction story, Band-Aid For 800 Children, written by Eli Sastow and the fiction story, The Red Umbrella, written by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, are two different stories focusing on family separation. Both stories are written throughout perspectives, showing struggles families have to go through. Both stories have similarities and differences, however, this will be focusing on the similarities. Both stories revolve immigration and family separation. In both The Red Umbrella and Band-Aid for 800 Children, the authors use words to portray emotion. During, The Red Umbrella, Mama, was showing a negative emotion, like guilt, throughout her actions. An example of this is when Papa had reached over and she stayed looking down on the ground while