Compare And Contrast Two Friends

We all have friends that are alike or different from each other. My friend Nicole and Amy are also friends. Both of them are alike in some ways, but at the same time unlike from each other. For example, they both dress to their comfort, but the clothes they choose to wear are different. They both have similar taste in music and television shows. However, Nicole and Amy are more different than alike. Nicole and Amy have different appearance and style. Nicole is five feet and two inches with medium brown wavy hair that is shoulder length. She has big eyes and also freckles on her face. Nicole tends to dress very casually. For an instant, she would wear jean with a graphic tee or a blouse and navy blue classic vans. She occasionally keeps up with the latest fashion trend. On the other hand, Amy is just 5 feet tall with...show more content...

Nicole's personality is super shy and, quiet when it comes to new people or people she rarely talks to. However, when it comes to people she likes and enjoys talking to, she is a social butterfly. Amy was never in any a team sport. However, she plays tennis with her cousins for fun. Amy is really sociable and blunt at the same time. I remember a time during lunch there was a table across from us were talking super loud and she shout "shut up". Amy is not afraid to speak her mind while Nicole is more shy and quiet. Nicole cannot stand watching gory, horror and supernatural movie. For example, during summer, our friend, Julie, invited Nicole, Amy, and Iwatch Green Inferno. Nicole did not want to come along due to the fact that when she watched the trailer of that movie she found it super gory and disgusting. However, Amy did not find that trailer gory and disgusting and came long to watch the movie with us. Amy enjoys watching horror or supernatural movie or shows. For example, during the month of October, there was a movie call Crimson Peak and Amy wanted to watch it while Nicole did not want

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A person's life can be summed up within a sentence, their childhood just a word. Time has the interesting ability of warping. At the same time, it has the ability to take away sentiment from any event. Words can only express so much of an experience. One can only relate to an experience by sharing that moment, even then the way individuals process experiences differs drastically. A prime example of this is one'schildhood. People can share the same superficial characteristics, yet have two different takes on childhood. Two male middle children with separated parents and two siblings can diverge completely. Where does this lie?

It lies within one's processing, which in turns creates unique same experiences. Every individual is...show more content...

The Stage For children, the greatest thing fought for is recognition. Especially as a young girl, it's only natural to crave attention.

I grew up as an extroverted child. That's one of the reasons why I was attracted to the stage; it was my domain, my home. My mom told me that my extroversion became apparent in one specific situation. My family and I were at the beach for our annual beach trip and I was making sandcastles. There was another little girl near us who was also playing in the sand. My mom told me that I walked over to the little girl and just sat down and started playing with her, at one point she asked, "can we be friends?" my response was, "I thought we were already friends."

The Dancer Growing up as an only child my best friends were the Disney princesses. I watched them glide and dance along the screen, swinging in the arms of a handsome prince. They were magnificent. Beautiful, graceful, and powerful. I wanted nothing more to join their brigade. At three, I was put in dance classes to make this dream happen. Tap and jazz, definitely not the princess dancing I imagined. This became apparent when the first recital came around. We were given fluorescent, sparkly leotards. No ball gowns or even a tutu. I don't recall the reason for my following actions, but according to my mom when all the other little dancers took position and began dancing I didn't. I sat on the stage. My mother was furious, Get more content

Compare and Contrast Two Short Stories

Landlady by Roald Dahl and Chemistry by Graham Swift

There are lots of great short stories out there, but in my opinion, both 'Chemistry' by Graham Swift and 'The Landlady' by Roald Dahl are two of the most unique and effective stories. They share both similarities and differences throughout. Comparing and contrasting the way the authors use their inimitable writing style to achieve their intentions in the story will give us more idea how these stories are alike and distinct.

In a way, these two stories are similar because both the authors had carefully chosen the words...show more content...

In the beginning , Billy thought the landlady was 'terribly nice',which he was quite grateful to have such a nice landlady who give him a well–appointed service, but as the conversations go on, Billy was then frightened by her weird and creepy contents, he 'sat there staring straight ahead of him into the far corner of the room, biting his lower lip.' tells the readers that he's begin to frightened and suspect landlady, foreshadowing the readers that she might be doing something that couldn't be trusted by Billy.

In another way, these two stories are different because the authors have been using different perspective when narrating the story. In 'Chemistry', author's written the story in the word of narrator, mixing both the perspective of adult and young boy's. Line" My father's death was a far less remote event than my grandfather's but no more explicable, I was only seven." can be a good example. Almost the whole story was written in past tense, added to the effect of recalling. He's shown a grown up man recalling memories when he was back in 7–10 years old. This kind of writing style makes readers felt more personal, because the subject is 'I', when reading out the story, readers will feel like they're experiencing the narrators' life, as if they are the narrator. Also, another interesting fact about this kind of writing style is that if I were to look at the same events in other character's perspective, it might be another whole different story because

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Compare and Contrast Essay

The setting of a story is the time and place in which the story takes place. The author may include a specific date or time period, or leave it up to the reader to determine a time period by suggesting certain events. The author may choose to give specific examples and clues as to where the story takes place or may suggest certain things to clue the reader to where the story is taking place. The theme of a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. It is the unifying generalization about life stated or implied by the story. The theme of a story supports a view of life or reveals some insight into life. Another element of literature is thenarrative voice and is told in what is called...show more content... This aids in revealing the theme because you get to hear what goes through her mind, you understand her reactions to what she sees, and to what Miss Moore shows and tells them.

Alice Walker's Everyday Use takes place in rural Georgia. It was written during the black power movement, a time period when blacks rejected the change through peace doctrine that Martin Luther King Jr. preached to his people. During this movement blacks would commonly dress in African dress, and change there last name in hopes to connect to their past heritage and forget what the white man "forced" upon them. The theme could be described as: a person connects to there past through many different ways, in hopes to better their future. The setting helps reveal this because Georgia obviously has a large black population and this movement stemmed from Georgia and Alabama. Along this those things, references to the neighbors down the road by the mother in the story help shape the theme intended by the author.

Everyday Use is told in first person point of view, this helps to amplify the theme by letting you into the narrators mind, and you understand what she feels and how she is desperately wants to find herself. It allows you to be the narrator and to experience what she is going through. For example Dee has a hatred for the "old house" because it links her back to her past that she is longing to forget and how she feels when her boyfriend Hakim sates

Essay 2Scott Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain" and Bobbie Ann Mason's "Being Country" are two the texts to be compared. Though they share similarities, they too are quite different. They both share similar topics, in that they are two stories of cultures, but written from different perspectives of their cultures. Momaday is from the Kiowas tribe of the plains of Oklahoma, and Mason from a farm in Mayfield, Kentucky. Both exhibit some comparisons, but mostly contrasts throughout their writing. Momaday's American Indian heritage dates back to the 1880's when his grandmother was born, where Mason's dairy farm heritage takes place starting when she was born in 1940. I found both to be stories of each of the author's lives...show more content... Momaday shows contentment in his work.

Mason, on the other hand, shows more resentment in hers. Bobby Ann Mason begins by describing the simplicity of how herfamily lives. She begins this writing from when she was eleven years old. Her mom and Granny were very dedicated farm women. They took care of all of the food, clothing and just about anything else needed for them to run a household. As Mason shows, they prove to be very resourceful and are capable of making the most out of what they have available. On a typical day of food preparation by Mason's mom and Granny, Mason screams "Can't y'all talk about anything but food? There was a shocked silence. 'Well, what else is there"? Granny asked. Granny didn't question a women's duties, but I did. I wanted to be somebody, maybe an airline stewardess. Also, I had been listening to the radio. I had notions" (106). She was beginning to develop her independence. Mason thought she would strive to better herself to not have to 'suffer' her mother's fate. She almost seems to be developing anxiety and depression over food, though her family always seems to get by with plenty. "I think this dependence on nature was at the core of my rebellion. I hated the constant sense of helplessness before vast forces, the continuous threat of failure...I especially hated women's part in the dependence" (106). She talks of

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A few of the characters find out that they are alike their parents by many ways. Me and my mom share a connection just like that. We look alike, we act the same and everyone seems to know this. At times it is a great connection, others it is not good at all. It plays a big role in our relationship. A big effect it makes is in arguments. My mom tells me and my sisters about how she acted when she was younger. She tells me about how responsible she was, when she was younger. The one thing that she never tells us is that she is sensitive, and very dramatic. I know that I am dramatic, because one year for valentine's day I got a heart of candy saying drama queen. My older sister points out that when me and my mom stub our toes we both fall to the ground and say "owwwwwww" and as my sisters says we make it way bigger deal than we should have. Another reason is that we cry at any item that is sad like movies, books, stories. Even when a part is somewhat sad we cry. We are dramatic and sensitive but it can be good ,because then she can understand when I am upset or sad. It also works the other way around. ...show more content...

Just like my mom we can be very sassy or have a hot temper. Cassie gets mad when people treat her worse than the whites. The same goes for my family. When people treat me disrespectfully, I get mad and I want to tell them otherwise, but I have learned to keep my temper and be nice to them. Uncle Hammer reminds me of my dad. My dad has the hot temper in our family. That is where I get my temper. All of my family members get angry when people accuse us of doing what we did not do. My dad, my mom, and I can either get along very well or we can be mad at each Get more content