The Trip And The Leap Analysis

In a compare and contrast essay you are looking at the details between several things and comparing. In Contents of the Deadman’s Pockets, The Trip, and The Leap there are similar details in the characters, conflicts, and settings that make them comparable. Along with those details there are also many more that make them different from each other. The character, conflict, and settings in the stories have that have different effects on the way the story goes. Every story is different, but you will find that there are different things that connect them.
The way the characters act in their surroundings and interact with others in can affect the story. In Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets, The Trip, and The Leap the protagonists make big decisions that affects the rest of the story. In Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets and The Leap the decisions made by the protagonists affect other characters, unlike …show more content…
In Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets we are on a ledge outside of the protagonist’s apartment on the eleventh floor of the building. The setting made us more concerned about protagonist and his decision because he was in a stressful setting. The setting makes the mood tense and stressful. The author uses the phrase “he stood on the ledge outside in the slight chill breeze eleven stories above the street,” to explain the setting. In The Trip and The Leap there are several different settings. In The Trip each of the settings set a tense mood and effects the way the characters feel and act. In the beginning when they are on the boat on the boast waiting for to reach the Spanish Coast. “The six-meter Zodiac inflatable is meant to accommodate eight people. Thirty huddle in it now – all anxious with the look of those whose destinies are in the hands of others.” In The Leap the main settings are the ones in the flash backs, the circus and the house. In each of these settings an accident occurs making the