Afghanistan, a beautiful country full of wide open spaces and nice people. In this amazing country there is something terrible happening, children are getting water and missing school just so their family is able to live. There are many similarities and differences between the video, “For Afghans Kids, Hauling Water is a Living” and the text, “The Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers”. Both the text and the video have a topic of kids having to carry water but they do it in different ways and sometimes in the same ways.
In the video there are some things they do that differ from the text.
One is using subtitles as these are only seen in the video. They use these subtitle because if they didn’t we wouldn’t understand what was being said. It also uses a foreign language unlike the text that stays english. This helps the viewer realize that they are not from around here. Adding on there are more than one perspective in the video as they have multiple kids and a adult speaking. This proved that it isn’t something that only one person is going through, it is lots of kids.
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To begin with, they have simile and in the video they don’t have any. The text uses the words, “until they are heavy as grain sacks.” This is something that describes the weight and burden they have to carry around. In addition they use quotes in the text and in the video they don’t. This shows that people are speaking and it isn’t just something the author put in there. The text also uses repetition and the video doesn’t. The text uses the word children a lot in one paragraph. This shows that it is something important as it keeps coming up. Lastly the text uses cause and effect and as far as I know the video doesn’t throughout the entire video. In the text it says, “a passing car sideswiped their heavily burdened donkey, knocking it off its feet”. The cause is the car and the effect is the kid can’t get water for his