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Comparing The Red Umbrella And Band-Aid For 800 Children

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“The Red Umbrella” by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and “Band-Aid for 800 children” both portray the subject of immigration in many similar and different ways. A common subject found in both of the texts is immigration. Immigration is a big topic showed through these texts and both “The Red Umbrella” and “Band-Aid for 800 children” show how immigration can be difficult and tough. Similar and different techniques are used to present the overall subject of immigration.
There are many similarities about how immigration is portrayed in “The Red Umbrella” and “Band-Aid for 800 children”. The story and article use words from people to express the feelings about immigration. A technique used to develop this is details from the text which shows people’s …show more content…

In “The Red Umbrella” the tone in more negative towards immigration. The characters reactions and details from the text show the sadness in immigration. In “Band-Aid for 800 children” there is a positive tone towards immigration. This is because of the facts, data, and statistics which shows how many children are benefiting from immigration. Another difference between the two texts is in “The Red Umbrella” the story is told through the eyes of a child in a first person point of view, but in “Band-Aid for 800 children” it’s told in 3rd person point of view by a narrator. Lucy from “The Red Umbrella” is the main character and the story shows how immigration affects Lucy in a child perspective. The narrator from “Band-Aid for 800 children” shows a more informational adult perspective showing the positive effects of immigration. Finally, the last example is the techniques used in both texts to portray immigration. In “Band-Aid for 800 children” facts, data, and statistics is used to portray immigration while in “The Red Umbrella” the dialogue is more useful to create the subject of immigration. These texts are similar, but they also portray immigration through different

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