How do you feel that people should treat you and others? If you have your own opinion, then read on to find out some other readers opinions! In the Essay, Give! By Anne Frank, and the Poem, Identity, by Julio Polanco, I notice many similarities and differences in their opinions of how to treat others and how others treat them. Some similarities include both authors writing about how people get treated good and bad, sometimes on the way you look. If you look wealthy and well dressed, or you are like a freshly bloomed flower, you get treated nicely. But, if you are like a weed or a person with not a lot of money, you don't get treated nicely. Some differences include Anne Frank not liking how poor people get left alone and that they should be …show more content…
Most of the time wealthier people are ruder and poorer people are nicer, and Anne Frank states this very clearly. In the essay, “Give!” by Anne Frank, the text states, “You should try comparing one of those beggar children with your own children. What's the difference? Yours are pretty and neat, the others are ugly and ragged! Is that all? Yes that's all, that's the only difference. If you dressed one of those urchins in nice clothes and taught him nie manners, there wouldn't be a whit of difference! (Anne Frank paragraph 4) This piece of evidence by Anne Frank suggests that when a child is dressed in ragged clothing, they have the same personality as your own children, just dressed differently. Also, in the Poem, “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, the text states, “I’d rather be unseen, and if then shunned by everyone, than to be a present-smelling flower, growing in clusters in the fertile valley where they’re praised, handled, and plucked by greedy, human hands.” (Polanco lines …show more content…
In some cases this can be bad, but in Julio Noboa Polanco’s case, it is a good thing. I also noticed some differences between the two stories. These can include Anne Frank wanting to bring attention to the people who need it, and Julio Noboa Polanco not wanting to be recognized and pointed out. For instance, in the Essay, “Give” by Anne Frank, she asks why people don't give in to others who don't have all that they have, to help them out a bit. “Why can't peop;le who have money more than enough for their own needs give the rest to their fellow human beings? Why should anyone have to have such a hard life for those few short years on earth?” (Frank paragraph 6) and “But above all, a gift should never be flung in anyone's face - every person has a right to kindness.” (Frank paragraph 7) These two pieces of evidence from Anne Frank exemplify that wealthier people should try and put themselves in the street beggars shoes and see how much they need help from others who have everything and