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Both, "Boy's Life" and, " Emancipation: A Life Fable" have very similar themes but, there are some differences. The theme in the story "Boy's Life" is that one person's view on something could be completely different than someone else’s. The theme from " Emancipation: A Living Fable" is that you should take risk sometimes because you’ll never know what you’ll be missing if you don't.

The similarities that both stories have that help to develop the theme would be that they're both stories that have to do with leaving somewhere. For example, in the story "Boy's Life" the narrator is talking about his/her last day of school and how excited he/she is and in " Emancipation: A Life Fable " an animal is going outside of its cage and see's what

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