Sunday, 14 April 2013

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES ESSAY

Task :
The young man and the husband are the main characters in the shirt stories Lady Or The Tiger and Death By Scrabble. Write four paragraph essay to compare and contrast the two characters.

The Differences And Similarities Of The Main Characters In The Short Stories Lady Or The Tiger and Death By Scrabble.


     Have you read the short story 'Lady Or The Tiger' written by Frank Stockton and 'Death By Scrabble' written by Charlie Fish? The main characters in the short story Lady Or The Tiger is the young man while the main character in Death By Scrabble is the husband. There are some differences and similarities between this two main characters. The following paragraphs are the differences and similarities of the main characters in Lady Or The Tiger and Death By Scrabble.

     There are 3 similarities of the main characters in both short stories that will be highlight in this paragraphs. The first similarities are both characters have the same gender which is male. The characters in Lady Or The Tiger is the young man while the character in Death By Scrabble is the husband. Another similarities are they are both the main characters in the short story. Both of them plays important role in the short story. Lastly, the similarities between the main characters in both short story are both of them involved in a relationship. In Lady Or The Tiger, the young man was in love with the princess and their love are not accepted by the king while the husband in Death By Scrabble was married with his wife and their relationship are broken.

     Meanwhile, there are 3 differences of the main character in both short story. The differences are the husband in Death By Scrabble hates his wife while the young man in Lady Or The Tiger loves his girlfriend, which is the princess. This can be shown that in short story Death By Scrabble, the husband tried to kill his wife by playing with harsh words and hoping that his wife will die whereas in Lady Or The Tiger, the young man loves his girlfriend and he had to choose between life or death as their love are not agreed by the king.Next, the character in Death By Scrabble was ended with death as he was chocked with scrabble tile while the character in Lady Or The Tiger might be ended with death if he choose door with tiger behind it or alive if he choose door with young maiden behind it.Another differences are the husband’s characters are full of hatred because he hates his wife so much while the young man’s characters is full of love as he loves the princess.

     In my opinion, both main characters have the differences but they have similarities too. Both short story Lady Or The Tiger and Death By Scrabble are nice and both characters have live a good life but a bad relationship.


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