Compare And Contrast Snow And The Skater

In the two texts, “Snow” by Julia Alvarez, and “The Skater” by Annie Dilliard, the two characters in the stories had very different views about snow. As one was very scared and thought snow was a horrible thing, the other one thought that snow was a very beautiful thing in the world. These two texts have one thing in common, each character sees the snow in different ways, but by the end of the story, their views change. The characters thoughts change by the end of the story, thus meaning that each character is dynamic.

In Alvarez’s text, Yo-landa, the main character who is an immigrant who has just moved to America, learns that “Holocaust was in the air.” Yo-landa’s teacher taught the students that there was danger if there was “a flurry”