Compare And Contrast Vinny And Joe-Boy

Would you jump off a fifty-foot precipice? Vinny and Joe-Boy are both characters in a story called “The Ravine”. They are fifteen year old, best friend, boys from Hawaii. They are going to a ravine to go swimming and cliff-diving off of a precipice. Even though two weeks and one day ago, a boy named Butchie had died. Joe-Boy and Vinny are very different in many ways and similar more than you would think. Vinny is scared. The author writes, “He could not imagine what it must feel like, to be up there, especially if you were afraid of heights. Like he was.” He is weak. The author writes how he can’t even say no. Vinny was strong. The author tells us how even though he was scared he climbed the cliff and could have died anyway.
Joe-Boy is a show-off and is mean to his friends. He is controlling and calls others hurtful names. He is a bully. He hurts Vinny’s feelings even though Vinny doesn’t hurt his. Joe-Boy is very different than Vinny in many ways.
They are both are ordinary hawaiians. Both are best friends. They both go to the ravine. The two are also very similar even though they also have many differences.
Vinny and Joe-Boy are similar and very different. Vinny was scared for most of the story. Joe-Boy was not scared and somewhat a bully. Even though Vinny and Joe-Boy have differences, and are almost opposites, they are still friends. Although, Joe-Boy was persuasive at the beginning, Vinny finds that standing up to his friend brings him