“Comprehending the calamity” by Emma Burke and Dragonwings by Laurence Yep both talk about one natural disaster they both have different point of views on it. Dragonwings is a book about a Chinese kid in america but there is one part of the book where they had to fight through an earthquake with no one willing to help. “Comprehending the calamity” is a passage specifically about an earthquake that caused a lot of destruction for days and about how it was bad but people were still there for one another. These are the two stories and this essay is about why they have these different point of views. Because they had different purposes for writing, Emma Burke’s point of view of the 1906 earthquake brung out the best in people, while Moon Shadow’s point of view was the …show more content…
Emma Burke and Moon Shadow may have had different points of view because her purpose for inform, but Laurence Yep’s purpose for writing Dragonwings was to entertain. Emma Burke’s purpose for writing “Comprehending the Calamity” was to inform, because she wanted people to know about how the earthquake was bad but the people in it were good and that is why she talked about it the way she did. This may have affected her point of view because If she is writing about how good people acted she won 't go talking about how she hated how people looted. Laurence Yep’s purpose for writing Dragonwings was to entertain,because because even though they are talking about bad times he still did talk about how he almost had to beat someone up. This may have affected Moon Shadow’s point of view because if he is joking around by using a bad point of view he won 't talk about how happy he was that everyone helped out but he might say things that are a little funny like people that were going to loot but didn 't when they saw them. Ms. Burke 's point of view is that she likes how people acted during the earthquake and Laurence Yep 's perspective is that Moon Shadow doesn 't like the looters or the fact that people