A Day's Wait Similarities

Inflammatory Rheumatism And Degrees Fahrenheit, Not Celsius
“Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless” Edward Albert. Stories are told in many different ways, and in those stories there are different characters. The books A Day’s Wait, and A Stolen Day have those characters. The author of A Day’s Wait, is Ernest Hemingway, and the author of A Stolen Day is, Sherwood Anderson. Each characters have their own personality. They are both different and similar in different ways. The boy in A Day’s Wait is Schatz, and the boy in A Day’s Wait does not say his name. There are several differences, and similarities of both characters. For both of the boys there are differences. Some of those differences are in their personality. For example, Schatz’s
personality is caring, he is caring because he does not mind if his father reads to him or not. Schatz does not want his father to see him die. One example is “After a while he said to me, You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you”(Hemingway 300-301). Schatz thinks he is going to die in that story because he thinks he has a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit , because the boy in France told him you can’t live with a temperature of 44 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Schatz is different from the other boy because the other boy from the story’s personality is a little gloomy. He was gloomy because he thought he had Inflammatory rheumatism. He also thought that at any time his heart can just stop, and he would drop dead. He was also a little selfish. He was selfish because he thought if he died, or stayed up in his room all day, his mom wouldn’t even notice, or care. Another reason he was selfish is because he said that he was going to go fishing without telling his mom, or anyone. Schatz is actually sick. He has a fever, the boy in the other story actually does not have Inflammatory rheumatism. He thinks that he has that because he just ran a mile, so he is sore, and the more he convinces himself, he believes that he has inflammatory rheumatism, and he also does not want to go to school, and the more he thinks that he has Inflammatory rheumatism. The similarities are also part of character in the books.
One of the similarities in the book, is they think they can both die at any time. For instance, the boy in A Day’s Wait thinks he can drop down to the floor at any time. He thinks that at any time his heart can stop. “ I thought, I'll bet I die of it. I bet I do” (Anderson 307). That shows that he thought that he could die from it. “I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped. About what time do you think I'm going to die? he asked” (Hemingway 302). Another similarity about the characters is that someone in their family, both cares about them. Like the story, A Day’s Wait, Schatz’s dad cares about him, and in A Stolen Day, his mom cares about him, he just doesn’t think that. “He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. What's the matter, Schatz?”(Hemingway 299). That shows that the father in A Day’s Wait cares about his son. “He must have said something to Mother for presently she came. What's the matter with you? Why aren't you in school?" she asked(Anderson 306). That also shows that the boy’s mother cares about
him. Both of these authors show similarities in their characters in different ways. Some of the ways can be through the main character, or from a minor character, who is not as important. Both of these stories can show that in most stories, there are similarities and differences. There are many other ways to show similarities and differences, some of those ways are in setting, theme, plot, or even tone. A Day’s Wait, written by Ernest Hemingway, shows similarities through different ways other than characters, and so does A Stolen Day, written by Sherwood Anderson. The similarities are their personality, and so are their differences.There are similarities and differences in these two characters.