The Boy's life and Emancipation: A Life Fable were both good stories with important themes. In the Boy's life it was about a boy trying to get out of school for summer vacation and how he is so anxious to get out. In Emancipation: A Life Fable it was about an animal born in a cage and how the door was left open and he discovered he was happier out of the cage. They both taught lesson but they were not exactly the same although there were some similarity here and there. The few common similarities in it were that the stories both taught that happiness can come by freeing yourself from the state that you're in. In both of the stories they freed themselves to find happiness. The stories also both had situations that had a little
