Compare And Contrast

Yama Rasooli

English, Period 2

December 1, 2005

Compare and Contrast Essay

This essay will compare and contrast the stories Harriet Tubman and Emancipation. These two stories were very interesting and had both similarities and differences. They will be compared by their treatment, scope, and organization.

Harriet Tubman is an adventure story about this woman who helped slaves in the 1800's. She helped them by getting them out of the south and getting them to Canada where no one would expect they would have gone. The theme of this narrative is the importance of freedom. Emancipation is a historical photo biography about how Abraham Lincoln gets the people to accept the emancipation.

In Harriet Tubman, the author used a broad scope. The author seemed very inspired by this story and gave a lot of details in how the characters moods were and how they felt in a certain part of the story. However, in Emancipation, the author used a narrow scope. The author in this story was very serious about this certain piece of history and got straight to the point. The author gave the main points of what happened and didn't go into detail about each event that took place.

The organization was similar in the two stories. In Harriet Tubman, the author gave an introduction, then the author gave the problem, and last the author gave the resolution. In Emancipation, the author skipped the introduction and went straight to the problem then gave the resolution. The only difference was that the first story gave an introduction.

This essay has compared the two stories and has shown that in some aspects the stories are similar but in others they are quite different.