Stolen Day Compare And Contrast Essay

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Home is one of the best places to be when you are accepted. In these books, “A Day’s Wait” and “Stolen Day” two boys are at home with their families. One boy is feels very loved at home with his home and family while the other boy doesn’t feel as welcome. He doesn’t think that he gets enough attention. The author of the story “A Day’s Wait” is Ernest Hemingway and takes place in the United States but the boy was living in France before. This boy, Schatz is still not used to some American customs. He also has a very high fever and is waiting all day for something to happen. Sherwood Anderson wrote “Stolen Day” and this story takes place in a small town in Ohio a century ago. This boy, Chris wishes he could not go to school and go fishing like a boy in his town. The boy in his town that gets to go fishing suffers from a disease called inflammatory rheumatism. These two boys react in different ways in comparable events. There are several similarities and differences between these two boys and their stories. …show more content…

The main characters in both of these stories are boys that are around the same age of nine. Schatz thinks he is sick. Chris in “Stolen Day” also thinks that he is very sick. Also, they both assume that they are going to die sometime soon. Ernest Hemingway writes that Schatz says, "About how long will it be before I die?"(Hemingway 302) This means that he thinks that he is going to die soon and wants to know when so that he can prepare himself. Chris on the other hand declares, "I might die," I thought. "I might just suddenly die right here; my heart might stop beating."(Sherwood 306) Chris thinks that he is going to die right now this second. He thinks that because of the sickness he says to have he thinks that he will die any day, any second. He probably is wondering how his family might react to him dying. Those are various similarities that the boys in the two stories

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