Comparing and Contrasting Two Stories

Fell Summarize the story,”The night the Bed”.

• In the story "the night the bed fell" the family is in confusion.

• In the story "the night the bed fell" the mother believes the bed in the upstairs attic is about to fall.There is a loud noise during the night. Everyone thinks the bed has fallen on the father but he really just was sick and everyone was just confused because of the racket.

• In the story "the night the bed fell" the family is wrong in the end the man was sick.

2.Summarize the story,”Stolen day”.

• In the Story "Stolen Day" a boy tries to get out of school.

• In the story Stolen Day" by Sherwood Anderson is about a boy who get out of schools by say he has inflammatory rheumatism. Which another boy named Walter has and Walter gets to miss school. So the unnamed boy says he has the condition to miss school. But really he is fine.

• In the story Stolen Day" by Sherwood Anderson a boy misses school because he has a condition, called inflammatory rheumatism. He realizes he has the condition one day at schools and goes fishing.

Do you think the two stories have different tones. how are the two tones different?

• Yes, the stories have different tones.

• No the In both story ,"The night the bed fell" and stolen day both have a frantic morbid like tone.

• Yes, the story has different tones. In " the night bed fell" the tone is more frantic and fast past. in the story "stolen Day" the tone is morbid because he thinks he is goes to die.

After reading and analyzing both stories, do you think they have different or the same themes?

• same

• diferent

• After reading and and analyzing both story I have come to the conclusion both the story "the night the bed fell" and "Stolen day have the same theme

• After reading and and analyzing both story I have come to the conclusion both the story "the night the bed fell" and "Stolen day have different themes. In "stolen day" the theme is thinks are not as they always seem and in the night the bed fell the story's theme is think before you jump to conclusions.

After reading and analyzing both stories what do you think can be compare in the stories?

• tone

• text structure

• conflict

• theme

• all of the bove

Compare and contrast the two stories text structure.

• In the story "the night the bed fell" the text structure is the same as "stolen day."

• The text structure in stolen day is different as the text structure in the night the bed fell because the way the text was written out

• The text structure in the two stories "the night the bed fell" and the story "stolen day" was compare and contrast.

• The text structure in the two stories "the night the bed fell" and the story "stolen day" sequence/chronological order,

What do you think the conflict in “Stolen day” is? Explain or support why you think this.

• There is a boy who wants to go to school but can't because he has inflammatory rheumatism.

• The conflict in the story "Stolen Day" is about a boy who fakes a condition called inflammatory rheumatism to get out of school. but debates if he should tell his family so the conflict is man vs self.

• The conflict in "Stolen Day" was the boy had a condition called inflammatory rheumatism but his family doesn't believe him.

What do you think the conflict is in “ The the Night The bed Fell?

• the conflict in the night the bed fell is the loud noise in the middle of the night.

• The conflict in the story is man vs self.

• The conflict in the story "The the Night The bed Fell" is man vs self because everyone is some paranoid that the bed is going to fall when they hear a noise they think the bed has fallen.

What similarities do you see in the two stories?

• The two stories have no similarities.

• The two stories have many things in common like the confusion and slightly frantic morbid humor.

What difference do you see in the two stories?

• A difference i see in the stories are the climax's

• a difference i see in the stories are the tones like in the night the bed fell the tone is frantic.

• a difference i see in the stories are the tones In "The night the bed fell" the tone is frantic and in "Stolen Day the story's tone is more morbid.