Compare and Contrast by Jackson W.

Compare and Contrast Essay

The Outsiders and the book War comes to Willy Freeman are two completely different books, different plots, different characters, you name it they’re different, except one thing. Themes. Both books may be different but have similar themes. For example: Survival. Survival is one of the main themes for both The Outsiders and the book War comes to Willy Freeman. In this essay, we’ll be looking at the similarities between the two books theme wise.

First off, The Outsiders; The Outsiders is about a young child named Ponyboy whose parents have abandoned him and now he is alone only with the Greasers, who are cast outs, oddballs, a red shirt in 10 white shirts. Meanwhile, the Soc’s who the socials, rich are, live social lives. But everything changes when Ponyboy and his buddy Johnny are cornered by the Soc’s. And limits get pushed and a near death situation turns on the Soc’s when Johnny killed Bob, the leader of the Soc’s. Now they are on the run from the Law and the Avenging Soc’s.

Meanwhile, the book War comes to Willy Freeman is a whole other story (Literally). It is about a African family, who gets assaulted by the British during the Revolutionary War. Willy Freeman, the Daughter, is the only one who doesn’t get caught She watched her father die in battle when the British assaulted the Family and others too. Then when “Willy” returns, she finds her mother, kidnapped and taken to New York. Now Willy must dress herself as a boy and go to New York to find her mother.

Next, how do these books show the Theme survival in a similar way? First off, the first similarity is where both books have Violent Ways of survival. Like in The Outsiders Johnny killed that one guy, Bob, for the Survival of his best friend, the Main Character, Ponyboy. Also, in War Comes to Willy Freeman Willy goes to find her mother to survive, and in the process, the Death of her Father. So there is one similarity that has to do with Survival of both books The Outsiders and War Comes to Willy Freeman.

Differences are that War comes to Willy Freeman; survival in that book is way different than in The Outsiders. For example, in The Outsiders, survival is basically running from the cops, and from the Soc’s in that book, unlike War comes to Willy Freeman. Survival in War comes to Willy Freeman means finding a kidnapped mother in disguise as a young boy whose father has been killed by the British.