Compare And Contrast Gentleman Of Rio En Medio

“Compare and Contrast Gentleman of Rio en Medio and Saving the Wetlands”
Gentleman of Rio en Medio and Saving the wetlands are two stories that lot of similarities and differences. We read these two stories in Literature class and practiced comparing and contrasting. Gentlemen of Rio and Medio is a story about a man who sells his land to the Americans for half the amount he was offered. The children would still play on the trees of the land so the Americans complained to the real estate about it. Don Anselmo the main character tells the real estate person, also the narrator that the trees do not belong to him therefore he can not sell them. In the end the Americans buy the trees from the children. Saving the Wetlands is about a young boy named Andy who wants to save the wetlands to preserve the animals, land, and his memories. Andy fights for what he wants and they end up not being able to build the apartment complex. While Gentleman of Rio en Medion was about that Don Anselmo …show more content…
In Saving the Wetlands the external conflict is that the Wetlands are going to be destroyed and an apartment complex going to be built on the wetlands. In Gentleman of Rio en Medio the external conflict is that the children are playing on the land that was bought by the Americans. In Gentleman of Rio en Medio, Don Anselmo is standing up for what he thinks is right which is that the trees do not belong to him therefore he can not sell them with the land. Comparatively Andy is standing up for what he thinks is right which is saving the wetlands he thinks that the wetlands can not be destroyed because of the animals on the land and because the land is native to that place. Also Andy doesn't want his favorite place from his childhood. In a similar way Don Anselmo wants something to pass down to the children because it is tradition that something is passed down through