How To Write A Comparative Essay

Past actions can profoundly change present lives. In “The Hungry Past,” by Linda Furiya and “ Two Fish, One Morning,” by Glen Sorestad, the narrator from the personal narrative, and speaker from the poem are both profoundly influenced by their family. The narrator emerges as a cheerful girl who tries new foods, whereas the speaker is a despondent brother who regrets his past. While both passages learn to live life to it’s fullest, the narrator in the personal narrative is undoubtedly more influenced as her family also teaches her how to preserve family traditions.

As the devoted father of three children, the narrator’s father is evidently busy. Nonetheless, he appears at family gathering where everyone is present with “jovial and lighthearted mood.” Even the mother, who is normally in …show more content…
Moreover, The father’s intimate spellbinding stories told only during dinner emphasizes the value of family. Replete with imagery, the narrator paints a vivid picture of her father devouring his meal “with vigor and passions,” his eyes opening, glistens as if he had just experienced “a thrilling roller coaster ride.” As the father admires the appearance and aroma of the “cobweb of fat and red-striated meat,” he teaches the narrator to fully invigorate her five senses while she is in the midst of the experience. During “Jinnosuke’s day,” only a handful of the population was able to afford rib eye beef. This statement mentioned by the narrator’s father teaches the narrator to enjoy every bit of her food. The narrator compares her wilted meat to her father’s work of art, “the full-bodied taste of the beef with flavor, the same way the tannins of fine red wine would when I was old enough to appreciate wine,” learning to cook and appreciate food to it’s best value. The appreciation of food and family lingers within the narrator, like the “slight tang of rare meat remain[s] after [she]’d swallowed.” Similarly in the poem, the