Compare and contrast Essay
The two pieces that I am writing about are very similar in some ways and profoundly different in others. The first piece is called Harriet Tubman. This piece is written as a story by Ann Petry, and is about Harriet Tubman helping take slaves to Canada. The second piece is called Sympathy. It is a poem written by Paul Dunbar, about how the African American population feels before the civil rights movement. They both are great pieces of art that are similar and different in many ways.
Harriet Tubman is a very intriguing story. Being not entirely factual, it is written more like historical fiction than a biography. The story begins by talking about a man they called Moses, this was really Harriet Tubman, but all they new about her was that when she came she always took a group of slaves away to freedom. It goes on to talk about her journey with a specific group …show more content…
For example, Harriet Tubman used many different similes to make the reader think more about the object in the sentence, whereas there aren’t many similes in the poem Sympathy. There is also the almost obvious difference in how they are written, One is written as a story, where the details are not entirely true, and the other is written as a poem, which use symbolism to give its true meaning.
Although the themes are the same in the two pieces, the feeling of the authors towards each piece are different. Ann Petry has an attitude of amazement and even gratitude, partially because Harriet Tubman, at least for most of the characters, has a happy ending. Paul Dunbar however seems more angry and almost pleading in his poem, because it is about something that he was experiencing and his parents experienced. The works are not quite the same in how they get their point across, Harriet Tubman slightly hints at how the slaves felt, whereas Sympathy, although using symbolism, just comes right out and says
The two pieces that I am writing about are very similar in some ways and profoundly different in others. The first piece is called Harriet Tubman. This piece is written as a story by Ann Petry, and is about Harriet Tubman helping take slaves to Canada. The second piece is called Sympathy. It is a poem written by Paul Dunbar, about how the African American population feels before the civil rights movement. They both are great pieces of art that are similar and different in many ways.
Harriet Tubman is a very intriguing story. Being not entirely factual, it is written more like historical fiction than a biography. The story begins by talking about a man they called Moses, this was really Harriet Tubman, but all they new about her was that when she came she always took a group of slaves away to freedom. It goes on to talk about her journey with a specific group …show more content…
For example, Harriet Tubman used many different similes to make the reader think more about the object in the sentence, whereas there aren’t many similes in the poem Sympathy. There is also the almost obvious difference in how they are written, One is written as a story, where the details are not entirely true, and the other is written as a poem, which use symbolism to give its true meaning.
Although the themes are the same in the two pieces, the feeling of the authors towards each piece are different. Ann Petry has an attitude of amazement and even gratitude, partially because Harriet Tubman, at least for most of the characters, has a happy ending. Paul Dunbar however seems more angry and almost pleading in his poem, because it is about something that he was experiencing and his parents experienced. The works are not quite the same in how they get their point across, Harriet Tubman slightly hints at how the slaves felt, whereas Sympathy, although using symbolism, just comes right out and says