Have you ever come face to face with a huge great white shark? I bet you haven’t! In the short story, The Truth about Sharks by Joan Bauer. Beth is falsely accused for stealing a pair of jeans when she was really just trying to find an outfit for her Uncle Al’s birthday party. She starts as a nervous girl trying to prove herself innocent.
“No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.” This compelling quote from William Godwin shows the importance of integrity, guilt, and most importantly, innocence. Innocence, is the exact opposite of guilt, wrong, sin, and disgrace. Joan Bauer is the author of the extraordinary short story, “The Truth About Sharks.” This realistic fiction short story has a shocking ending where the main protagonist, Beth changes her point of view about guilt and innocence.
I think that the only true differences are the characters, such as the grandparent's plot having Gramps, Gram, and Tom Fleet was only in that plot, but the Phoebe plot had many characters, such as Ben, Phoebe, Mary Lou and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Winterbottom, Prudence, etc. I think that another difference would be the point of each plot. The grandparent's plot was trying to show Sal’s relationship with her grandparents but was also showing parts of Sal’s past life the intertwined with the story. I think that the point of Phoebe’s story was to show how Sal’s past with Phoebe affected her everyday life, and how Sal felt about some things she would not have been able to blankly state out loud, such as feelings about her father’s relationship with Margaret Cadaver, or Ben. I think that both plots have more similarities than differences, but the differences are more physical or surface-level, and the similarities are deeper meanings that were developed through truly analyzing the book and that differ from the reader’s
One of those differences occurs in the novel where Gene Forrester’s best friend Phineas passes away. To begin with, the novel rationalizes Gene’s reaction when he is meeting with Dr. Stanpole, after Phineas’ surgery. Dr. Stanpole very quickly delivers the news to Gene that his best friend has left them all and passed away. The death of Phineas brings his family and friends together for the funeral at his family’s burial ground in Boston. Gene is also there to pay respect to his friend, holding in all his emotions as he watches the
The short essay “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan is an autobiographical short essay describing the experience of Amy, a fourteen-year-old American-Chinese girl, at an embarrassing dinner party her family hosted. One of the people invited was her crush, an American pastor’s son, and, because of the cultural difference, he did not understand the table manners or the food choices of the Chinese diners. Through this embarrassing experience- showing how different her culture and, by extension, she was to her crush- she learned to accept her native Chinese culture, even if she did want to assimilate into the new, American culture.
One style, in the story, is it is told from two perspectives. It is told in the perspective of the author reflecting back on when her father read her the story. He has added side notes to make the story more clear. The perspective of the story is constantly changing from a girl from medieval times to a man from current times, which gives this book a unique element. Another style is its ability to change the reader’s emotions frequently from laughing, to being scared, to being sad, to wanting to know what happens next.
Both forms of the nonfiction genres are important to telling the story of the
In the two passages it talks about Harriet Tubman and her legacy. In each there are of course similarities and differences. I will refer to them as the first one, Leaders of the Civil War: Harriet Tubman, and the second one, The Woman Called Moses. These passages are very well structured. They are also written in her perspective instead of others.
I feel that the Grandmother’s was sudden and a conclusion that she needed before death. Parker's was a gradual revelation. It started with the man at the festival and ended with his tattoo of gods all-knowing eyes. The development of Christ in both stories is a statement of humans and their true meaning to “be good”. Neither character would be considered an upstanding human but O’Conner proved that each deserved their own grace of
One difference clearly shown is in the short film “Tales of the Unexpected” Billy reacts to the tea, however in the story he does not. In the film, Billy reacted very ferociously and crazily because of the poisonous tea, however in the story he did not react to it at all. I think the screenwriter alters the story to emphasize that the tea was poisonous. Another difference in the film is the screenwriter reveals Mulholland and Temple are in the house taxidermied. In the passage the ending is billy drinking the tea, however the film ends with the landlady revealing Mulholland and Temple are taxidermied and Billy is about to be.
Although both stories contain expressive and colorful descriptions of the events that occur and how the characters feel, The Jilting of
Comparing or contrasting books is never easy but within every book there 's something books can compare, it could be the reason of why the book was written, or even something deeper. but at the end the only thing to do is wait for someone to find more.
Although both of these stories have many literary elements in the story, the three that are the most important are setting, irony, characterization.
In the short story “The Truth About Sharks”, author Joan Bauer creates a very strong interpretation of a bold main character named Beth, who is accused of shoplifting at a local store. Although she is faced with a very strong security guard, she stands up to her to get what she wants by telling the truth. Bauer uses character development, symbolism, and conflict, both internal and external, to explain Beth’s journey. Analysis of literary devices made in “The Truth About Sharks” reveal how Bauer makes a subtle connection between the character and the reader which creates a connection with the theme which is one should always stand up for what one believes is the truth, even when the odds are stacked against it. Bauer’s use of character development
The poem and folktale The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson and Abuelito Who are similar and different in plenty of ways. One is about someone who is mistreated and one is about someone who dies. One has a narrator and one is told by the granddaughter. Those are just some of the differences. The characters, theme, genre, change in characters, events, and message expressed by theme are different and similar.
