“ If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude” -unknown. “A Day’s Wait” and “Stolen Day” are written by nobel prize winner Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois 1899 and wrote a collection of novels about people who show grace under pressure. Anderson was born in Ohio 1876. Sherwood Anderson was supporter of younger writers, including Hemingway. Anderson was a tremendous part of getting Hemingway’s first novel published. The experiences in “Stolen Day” happened to Ernest Hemingway and his son when moving from France to the United States. The stories take place nearly a century ago in the U.S.“Stolen Day” takes place in a small town in Ohio. The main characters, Schatz and the boy
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Schatz’s father found out he had a fever and influenza (Hemingway 299-300). Likewise the boy in “Stolen Day” began to ache during recess and was sent home by the teacher, Sarah Suggett (Anderson 304-305). And additional similarity between the two boys was their health misconceptions. Schatz had lived in France before moving back to the United States and grew accustomed to the metric system (Hemingway 299-300). When the doctor told him he had a fever of one hundred and two degrees fahrenheit, he confused it with celsius and spent the rest of his day expecting to die, until his father explained the situation to him. (Hemingway 302). The boy in stolen day confuses his aching to inflammatory rheumatism which is a disease a boy in his neighborhood has. The boy adds, “I had a feeling that, if I said I had inflammatory rheumatism, Mother or my brothers and my sister Stella might laugh. They did laugh at me pretty often and I didn't like it at all. ‘Just the same,’ I said to myself, ‘I have got it.’ I began to hurt and ache again” (Hemingway 306). This quote explains that the boy is convincing himself that he has a deadly disease similar to
Schatz’s father found out he had a fever and influenza (Hemingway 299-300). Likewise the boy in “Stolen Day” began to ache during recess and was sent home by the teacher, Sarah Suggett (Anderson 304-305). And additional similarity between the two boys was their health misconceptions. Schatz had lived in France before moving back to the United States and grew accustomed to the metric system (Hemingway 299-300). When the doctor told him he had a fever of one hundred and two degrees fahrenheit, he confused it with celsius and spent the rest of his day expecting to die, until his father explained the situation to him. (Hemingway 302). The boy in stolen day confuses his aching to inflammatory rheumatism which is a disease a boy in his neighborhood has. The boy adds, “I had a feeling that, if I said I had inflammatory rheumatism, Mother or my brothers and my sister Stella might laugh. They did laugh at me pretty often and I didn't like it at all. ‘Just the same,’ I said to myself, ‘I have got it.’ I began to hurt and ache again” (Hemingway 306). This quote explains that the boy is convincing himself that he has a deadly disease similar to