The Loyal Samurai

Have you ever thought of how life would be for a Samurai? The Loyal Samurai is about a samurai named, Kusunoki Masashige who always obeyed his master, no matter what. This demonstrates a real samurai. The Lives of the Samurai is about samurai’s daily lives and how they should be loyal and brave. This demonstrates a perfect samurai. The Lives of the Samurai and The Loyal Samurai are both different and similar in some ways. The Loyal Samurai demonstrates that a samurai should be compassionate, loyal, and courageous. The Lives of a Samurai also demonstrates courage and loyalty to be in a Samurai. But they do not demonstrate a Samurai as a compassionate person. To wrap it all up, The Lives of the Samurai and The Loyal Samurai both have character traits which people admire. To begin with, samurais in both of the articles are similar because they are …show more content…
They are different because the samurai in The Loyal Samurai is demonstrated as a compassionate person. According to the article it states, “ Before leaving, he presented his ten-year son, Masatsura, with a sword and urged him to continue the fight when he was grown.” He knew he was not going to make it, so for his last memory, he wanted to see his son and make him proud of him. This obviously shows compassion.The samurai in The Lives of the Samurai does not show compassion. According to text, it states, “ Fighting in battle was more than a job- it was a way of life.” This shows that samurais in this story are only supposed to be involved with their job, no love, or compassion. If they say it was life, that means they had no time to be compassionate. Samurais are supposed to be tough, and strong. Samurais are not compassionate. To sum it all up, samurais in The Lives of the Samurai and The Loyal Samurai are different because The Loyal Samurai demonstrates a samurai as a compassionate person but, The Lives of the Samurai does