Analysis Of Homeless Person By Anna Bot

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The poem and the story develop the same themes but they come across to a person in different ways. In the story a hobo gets help from a man but later doesn't appreciate it. The story starts off when a man comes along to a hobo who hasn't slept for two days and hasn't eaten for three days. The man offers to take him out to pick and find him a place to sleep. The homeless guy starts out eating with great manners, but then he starts to get ungrateful because he feels the man is just using him and just trying to learn about him. The homeless guy develops gratitude toward the beginning, but then it slowly fades throughout the story.

In the poem it talks about what you should be thankful for. You have to think harder for what the message is in the poem, than in the story. The poem uses unique words that the reader might not be familiar with. The poem expresses Thankfulness and gratitude for everything you have because some of the things you have others might not less fortunate than you.
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Readers can find out how each article uses gratitude by using evidence. The evidence you can get from the story is when you find out that the guy is homeless, hasn't eaten for three days, and hasn't slept for two days. You can then infer that after the man takes him out to eat, that he would chow down his food which he did later on in the story. The homeless guy starts out being very thankful for his food, but then he starts to have terrible manners and unthankful. The evidence you can get from the poem is when it states some of the things you should be Thankful for but in a different

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