Comparing Twain And London In 1906

Both Twain and London talk about some of the worst. Twain’s takes place in 1865 and London’s in 1906. Each story targets different perspectives of the earthquake. While one shows the people San Francisco has tons of earthquakes each year during the earthquake, the other shows the destruction of the city. In Twain’s story he tells about multiple people he sees during the earthquake. He talks of one woman who had just ran from the building in nothing but her underwear. He also tells of men rushing from barber shops, a consul’s wife running straight from the tub completely naked, and a minister who attempted to be brave and stay inside the church and let God decide his fate. Twain looked past the literal damage of the earthquake and described
He talks about the physical appearance of San Francisco afterwards, and gives the city humanlike characteristics to dramatize the damage that was done. In the third paragraph he explains what exactly the city had looked like after the earthquake. “The steel rails were twisted into perpendicular and horizontal angles. The telephone and telegraph systems were disrupted. And the great water mains had burst.” London does this towards the beginning of the essay to create a disastrous city setting in the reader’s brain. As the essay goes on London starts to give the city human traits. London starts the fourth paragraph off by saying that, “half the heart of the city was gone”. London uses the dissipating heart to connect the reader with how disastrous the earthquake had been. At the end of the paragraph London talks about the calm winds throughout the night, he uses this to represent the final breaths and last moments of the city before it totally crumbles into pieces. London uses the personification of the city to relate the reader with the fear of death, most people associate death with the horrific fate we all end with eventually; However, with that idea in mind London shows that no matter what man will always be overcome by