Comparing WWJD And Rappaccini's Daughter

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Many short stories have similarities and differences in literature. This comes in a lot with the short stories “WWJD” by Will Weaver and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The most obvious similarity and difference in the two stories was going to the extreme. Both stories have similarities and differences in strange ways. In the story “What Would Jesus Do” Suzy went to an extreme with religious beliefs. In a quote “i try to live by one rule: WWJD. What Would Jesus do?” shows us that her religion always comes first even though other morals would suit even better in her fervores situations though the short story. In Rappaccini’s Daughter the father went to the extreme with his science and his test subjects “his patience are interesting

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