Compare And Contrast The Schoolchildren's Blizzard

The people of Nebraska, especially the children, teachers, and parents who had to face many challenges during the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard. In both the poem “A Woman’s Voice” by Ted Kooser and the article “Blizzard!” by Jeanie Mebane shows all the challenges the ones affected by the storm had to face. Both passages described the bravery and courage people needed to survive the blizzard. But both passages also described how many families were separated by the powerful storm. In both the poem, A Woman’s Voice, and the article, Blizzard! The very dangerous storm separated families, and required bravery to survive.

In both the poem and the article the snowstorm was described as dangerous. The storm caused damage to many buildings in "A Woman's Voice" the woman said “it felt as if an enormous fist had struck the house". The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard with winds reaching up to 70 mph with temperatures below 0° caused 400 people to die. Jeanie Mebane described it as a “violent blizzard”. The storm caused many tragedies because of how powerful its impact was and no one started preparing for the storm. The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard was described as very dangerous and powerful in the …show more content…
In the poem the families son Jim was stuck at school two miles away from where they lived. Jim’s father tried to reach him but the powerful blizzard prevented him from saving his son. In the article it states that 400 people died during the storm. The blizzard caused students to be stranded at their school freezing to death. Their parents trying to save them died on their way. In the article the author wrote “Barney and Anna Barry feared for the lives of their three older children who had walked the mile to school” their children survived the storm, but 235 other Nebraska school children did not survive. The poem and the article’s authors both wrote about how the storm split up