Elephants On The Savannah and Colossal Catch are two stories mainly about two massive creatures, the colossal squid, and the elephant. Elephants On The Savannah’s main idea is how the elephant is amazing by how they can communicate with vibrations and sense those vibrations through their feet. Colossal Catch’s main idea is how the colossal squid is mysterious and frightening, but scientists take every chance to study it. Similarities Since these two stories are very different there is only on similarity for text structure, they both have pictures. Each picture goes along with the text that it is by. One thing both authors did very well at was stating facts. Both authors stated the facts differently, but each fact is described with detail. Both authors …show more content…
They either sated information about the animal or left out certain information for you to study. Each story is about a massive creature, the elephant, and the colossal squid. These beasts are so fascinating that scientist study them to the best of their abilities. Each animal has adaptations for their habitat. Differences The text structures are so different I don’t even know where to begin. Let’s start off with how Elephants On The Savannah is all dialogue with characters that are not real. It is also a Readers Theatre. It is hard to say what genre this story falls into but I would say it is a realistic fiction with real facts. The ranger in the story is the person who states all of the facts in it. As for Colossal Catch, it is written with sub-headings. Each sub-heading states information that wouldn’t go along with other information. It also has captions that go along with each picture. This informational story is a nonfiction story. Elephants On The Savannah is about elephants and their life. The text states that elephants are much like people with a high intellect and emotions. Elephants are massive herbivores that roam the lands of Africa. The elephants have big tusks that
Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
The first similarity is the conflict of the story. The conflict of this story is when the cobras, Nag and Nagaina, are trying to get rid of Rikki, the mongoose, the boy, Ted, and his parents. In the book the cobras said, “When there are no people in the Bungalow,did we have any mongoose in the garden? So long as the Bungalow is empty, we
Have you ever wondered how animals interact and work together to get a job done? Many times, animals put their minds together to complete a task. But what many people do not realize is that animals interact with one another just as humans would. In many instances, people don’t realize the amount of intelligence and common sense that animals, such as the elephant, possess. The study of elephant’s thoughts and thinking were explained and backed up through three different mediums. This information was explained through articles, videos, and passages. Combined, these pieces of work clarified what the experiment was, what it was testing, the purpose behind it, and how the different pieces were
So far this book was a nice little surprise. Like previously stated, upon picking this book up one would think that the author is crazy for writing about the lifestyles of elephants. But when it is actually explored and read its written style and messages make for this book to be taken in very easily and fluently. This language used is at the perfect level, and the subject level is complex enough that the reader has to make connections themselves or else they will become confused almost guaranteed.
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
The underlying themes of the stories are l valid contrasts between the works. In some portions the themes are of the same facets, such as how in both books two men have a direct conflict between
time of their works, they both had many similarities in the theme of their stories and their goals of writing the stories.
Things that are similar about the two novels and how both of their dreams were crushed are both are groups of people who have these dreams and each finds or meets something that can help their dreams come true, the pearl and Candy. Furthermore, the realization of their dreams coming to an end is, in both books, caused by the death of someone who is a part of the dream, Coyotito and Lennie.
Many great authors that study human nature stood out the most during the period of time between the Imperialism and World War II. Among these authors were George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Their study of the human nature is especially visible in certain short stories that each author respectively did. Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” and Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth.” In either of these stories the respective author uses animals to depict their complex ideas about the nature of life, men, and the whole world.
... almost nothing alike from a superficial aspect. The stories have different historical contexts and they simply don’t have much in common to the average audience. It is easy to contrast the stories, but deep within certain elements, the stories can be linked in several ways.
The big helpful elephant and the odd bird with the single feathered tail are caught up in a series of events when Horton finds a speck on a clover and is determined to prove that there is another world of things living on it.
Elephants'." Studies in Short Fiction. 17.1 (Winter 1980): 75-77. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 75-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
tells how an entire farm of animals can talk and think like human beings. It also tells you how
The novel begins in Zimbabwe, a small country in Africa. Daniel Armstrong, a famous television naturalist has travelled to the Chiwewe Camp to film a cruel but necessary process, the culling of the beautiful Elephants. Armstrong quickly becomes tangled in a web of lies and deception as he soon realises that the ivory warehouse at the camp has been robbed and his long time friend, Johnny Nzou and his family, have been brutally murdered by the offenders. Armstrong embarks on a journey of rev...
Audiences typically like the surprise and beauty within stories, and the investigators have confirmed this theory. Pi and the writer will likely pass down the animal story because it has been approved by an audience. Both Pi and the writer might alter some parts of the story to improve the outcomes and make it appear more plausible.