"Emancipation: A life Fable" and Boy's Life share some of the same themes but they also have different themes. For example, some themes that they have in common are hesitation, escape, decision making, and pressure. In both texts the characters are hesitant, in Boy's Life the boy is hesitant on weather he should spend his summer righting the story for the contest or not enter the contest and let his teacher down. In "Emancipation: A Life Fable'' the animal is hesitant to leave the cage where he lived his whole life. The author of "Emancipation: A Life Fable'' wrote in paragraph 3 the author wrote "In the corner he crouched, wondering and fearingly. Then slowly did he approach the door, dreading the unaccustomed, and would have closed it, but
