McFarland USA and Taking Sides McFarland USA and Taking Sides have many differences but they have one very important similarity. First, they are sort of opposites Taking Sides is about a Hispanic boy moving to a mostly white neighborhood. McFarland USA is about a white man moving to a mostly Hispanic neighborhood. The next difference is that McFarland USA is about cross-country. Taking sides is about basketball.
There are differences and a few similarities between taking sides and McFarland USA. A different is McFarland hade a country team and taking sides has a basketball team. Another different is they take place in two different schools. The school in taking sides is clumbers and the school name in McFarland USA is McFarland. The same thing in both is that they both are in the same state that is California.
Though they take place in different places, many similarities are seen when comparing Cool Hand Luke with Cuckoo’s Nest. This is seen when Both Mcmurphy and Luke get looked up to by their peers, when Luke and Mcmurphy are in confined space, controlled by a leader, and when they eventually rise up and go against the rulers! First I will talk about how Mcmurphy and Luke are the same.
They were all in devastation and debt from the years of war they contributed in. Even though both settings are completely different in time, they both show America changing over
In the two novels they have similarities, as well as differences. They both were enslaved when they were a small child and they both have family and love ones that care for them. These are a central themes that are similar in both slave girl in california and the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. However there are a lot of opposing themes such as between the two novels only one has a death of a family member and in one of the novels the main character had to suffer for mostly his whole life without ever being free.
The McFarland community is widely made up of poor farmers who pick fields day and night in extreme weather conditions for minimum wage. Further, the runners also help their parents pick crops from a young age while also attending school. Coach White is astonished when he comes to know that they do not pay the farmers “by the hour. [They] get paid by the field.” (McFarland USA).
For example, there are antagonists in both of the stories. But there are many more similarities than that. Similarities In the story “Three Billy Goats Gruff” there are two different countries telling the story. One is Norway, and the other country is Poland/Germany.
Both of these books are similar in ways because the main characters and their families both moved to America from middle eastern countries for better opportunities from the hard rush life back in their home country. Amir, who is from Afghanistan moved out with his father Baba because of the Soviet invasion. Baba couldn't stomach the idea of his country being ruined physically and ideologially by the Communists; so he leaves before it is too late. As a capitalistic businessman, his life and Amir's would have been in danger.
Lamarion Mothershead #4 Nov2 Two sports game There are many differences and a few similarities between Taking sides McFarland first off difference are they are to different sport taking sides is basketball and McFarland is cross country. Another difference is coach w. is more nice and does team bonding and coach Yesutis is more strict all ways yelling at the team for small mess ups. Next up the similarities they both have both schools have sports team’s seconds they both sports team in California for example one is more up north and one is more in the southern in.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an important American figure in the time he was alive and in his presidency. However, it all came to a very violent end. The President was going from state to state trying to get people to vote for him in the next election. He was at a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. At around 12:30 in the afternoon, gunshots came from behind the cars and struck the president in the back of the head (“JFK Assassination”).
In "Borders" by Thomas King, there are multiple levels of storytelling as the narrator tells both a primary and secondary story simultaneously, and in doing this, the narrator is able to use the secondary story to establish themes and a background for the primary story in a way that makes the story flow in an interesting and engaging way. King's choice of narrator also impacts the way a story based on serious cultural disputes can be told in a light an unbiased way, through the eyes of a young boy. These choices contribute to an interesting flow of reading and an intriguing unbiased report of politically charged events. The authors choice of narrator can influence the flow of the story and what message is expressed, which makes the young, clueless, innocent boy an interesting conduit to tell a story based on cultural and racial divides.
Although, they have similarity, the two stories has major differences also. First, both author differs the way they introduce and develop their lead characters to the reader. Second, they also differ in perspective from which their stories are being told. Third, they differs on the choice of settings and how it impact to the stories.
The major similarity already mentioned was their goal. Thorin and Mr.Wagamese wanted to return the land to its rightful owner.
The books that are being compared and contrasted are both about The Civil War and what these soldiers went through. Each book has a few differences that separate them. The books are based on the same time period so they are going to have a lot in common. The books describe what both characters had to go through during the war. The differences in the book will show you how each soldier went through the war differently and the similarity’s will show you how it was for most of the soldiers in the Civil War.
While the similarities are smaller, like the considerate personalities shared between the main characters of both
