Riding The Tiger And Fox By Margaret Wild

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As i have picked up two stories and read them I realized that they compare and contrast. One of the two books I read was about a boy who had gotten on this tiger but many people gave him a warning but he did not listen. He then suffered great consequences for the actions he made. The other story is about a dog, a fox, and a bird. People gave warnings but she did not listen to the warnings and she also suffered great consequences. The short stories that i have read are Riding the tiger by Eve Bunting and Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks. In both stories people tried warn Magpie and Dan that the tiger and the fox our not to be trusted but later find out that the warnings were right and they should’nt to trust the fox or the tiger. In riding …show more content…
In riding the tiger Dan was warned by many people and he did not take their warnings he ignored them because the tiger said it was OK and they were just going for a stroll around the city. But that was not true tiger didn't care about taking a stroll in the city that is when Dan learned that the warning were true he should not have trusted the tiger. In Fox Magpie was given a warning to not trust fox he was a bad man but instead of listening she went with fox and after she had gone with fox she realized she should have listened to the warning because what the warnings had said were coming true. I realized that these two stories compare and contrast By reading both stories I was able to connect the dots and I figured out that magpie and Dan are alike in many ways more than one.In both short stories' Dan and magpie were both warned by people but in Fox there was only one warning and that came from Magpie herself gave her own warning. But Dan got a warning from people they passed on the streets. As Dan was riding the tiger Dan kept getting warning from people he passed on the street. An old man reading a newspaper warned Dan, a police officer had warned dan and he told him you don't want to ride the tiger thats dangerous but still dan didn't listen.then

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