Farley Compare And Contrast

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Of a boy’s life and emancipation, these stories have a lot in common. In both stories’ they are trapped, in a boy’s life he is trapped at school at counting down every second that ticks by and in emancipation the animal is trapped in the cage wait for a better life. They are both resolved eventually which makes this story, these story’s Farley similar but they can also be classified very differently.
Some more similarities are that they're both getting ready to go in the boy’s life he is saying Tick.... Tick.... Tick.... Because he is awaiting every second till he can leave in emancipation he is taken from the cage. In both stories it works out for them in the end because in a boy’s life he gets out of school, in emaciation he gets out of the

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