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Comparing Jack London And The San Francisco Earthquake

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Compare And Contrast Essay In “The San Francisco Earthquake” by Jack London and “The San Francisco Earthquake” by Mark Twain I’m going to describe the tones, purpose, descriptions and how their relationships are similarly and unlike each other. Earthquakes are a very intense situation towards the environment around society as shown in the essays above. The tone on “The San Francisco Earthquake” by Jack London has a disturbed tone. Jack uses repetition when describing the terrifying and disgruntled earthquake. The earthquake has this appeal twice in the first paragraph when it says “Nothing remains of it but memories and a fringe of dwelling houses on its outskirts.” It mentions almost the same sentence when it says “There remains only
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