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Comparison Of Godfather Death And A & P

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Every story is different in many ways, from the genre to the way that it is written. The two stories that are being discussed are Godfather Death, which is more of a folk tale, and A&P, which is a basic short story. These two stories are very different, in the two stories Godfather Death and A&P the point of the story is expressed in a very different ways. The way that their styles and tones are set up makes them so different in many ways. In both stories, the tone is different one is more of an old time tone while the other is more of a modern tone. In Godfather Death, they are in the 1800s so the way that things were done then are more of a mid-evil kind of way things happened. In this story, there was a man who had twelve children and …show more content…

Godfather Death is very much a minimalist because they are very laid back and calm in the story. They do not get very excited or over the top about anything and they are also very flat with the things that they say and do. Towards the end of the story, Death said, “Look…these are the life lights of mankind. The tall ones belong to children, the middle-size ones to married people in the prime of life, and the short ones to the very old…” (Grimm, 14). This shows no emotion and is very flat he just said it like the lights are normal everyday things to them. Even though he describes the lights and their lengths it still seems very normal and original to him. As for A&P in this story, it seems that there is not a minimalist at all, they seem to have lots of emotion and the story seem a little more excited. The way that people are spoken to shows a little bit of emotion in the story. When Lengel the manager came out of the office and said, “Girls, this isn’t the beach” (Updike, 19) to Queenie and her friends. It comes off a little forceful and hostile because he later continues to tell them that they need to leave because they did not have on the proper clothing to be in the store. This story has emotion and is not flat at all with things that they say all throughout the

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