Compare And Contrast A Trip To Grandmother's And To Kill A Mockingbird

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Every situation has a meaning in the end. The meaning could be either bad or good. My personal experience happened a while ago involving me and my brother. He decided to grab my phone without permission to play with my app games and ended up dropping it in the water while he was washing his hands. I obviously got really mad at him and since I was young I told him that i would never talk to him again. Eventually I gave in and said sorry and so did he. The meaning to my story is that families should be there for each other, they may fight but in the end they’ll regret their mistakes. My partner’s experience involved him and his sister. His sister got locked inside a room and she was only 4 years old back then so she didn't really know how to unlock a door. So he had to give her instructions on what to do and eventually she did it and thanked him for the help. The meaning to his story is that you should always help one another and be there for each other which shows the importance of family. …show more content…
In the story A Trip to Grandmother’s Charles feels as if Mama loves and cares more about his brother GL, he felt abandoned and decides to leave home. And at the end of the story Mama admits that she didn’t love GL more than she loved any other of her children which shows that siblings or family should always be there and be able to forgive each other. The story To Kill a Mockingbird is similar to me and my partner’s experience because they both talk about family problems. The problem that they face in TKAM is they argue about who broke Jem’s arm, just like in Carlos experience he faces a problem with his younger sibling which caused some problems but eventually they got over the

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