Triangle Factory Fire Essay: Tragedy

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Triangle Factory Fire Essay
On march 25 1911 a tragedy happened called the Triangle Factory Fire. Authors Albert Marrin and Zachary Kent both wrote about the event. The details percieve the fire. In both stories there are diffrences and similarities. In the first text they talk more about the tragedy and in the second story they talk about who is to blame. They are similar because both agree it was a tragedy. To begin, the first text by marrin talks more about the tragedy. Marrin discusses details on people's deaths. He writes details such as "Down came the bodies in a shower,burning,smoking flaming bodies, with the disheveled hair trailing upward ...'' (271).The details on how they looked as they were falling of the building in

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