Similarities Between A Boy's Life And A Life Fable

Although the theme in ¨Emancipation - A Life Fable¨, and ¨A Boy’s Life¨ are similar they both have different themes. The theme to both stories is about escaping something. A dog in “A Life Fable’’ has experienced living in a cage for a long time and the lock was once left open and he decided instead of staying with the hand that feeds him he would rather experience the world outside. Now the dog has to suffer and survive finding food but yet he is happy to be in the outside world. Escaping will be the main theme for both of the stories. This essay will compare and contrast the development of the theme of freedom in the excerpt from “Boy’s Life’’ and “Emancipation - A Life Fable’’.
The themes are alike for both stories because the dog in “A Life Fable ” and the student in “A Boy’s Life’’ are both trying to escape a specific thing. The dog is escaping the cage. Surprisingly, the cage was left open and the dog left. The quest for the dog now is to find food and find an owner so it can survive. The boy just finished school and is now happy, but he realized that his teacher has no one to go home to. Now, Cory has time to enjoy his summer. He suddenly realized that his teacher was sad because she had no one to go home and spend summer
First of all, in A Boy’s Life and in A Fable Life, the characters are different and so is the theme. In A Boy’s Life the character is a student that does to school and the setting is at school and summer. In A Fable’s Life the character is a dog maybe and the setting is in a cage.Something different is also that the conflict is good for one story and bad for the other. In A Fable Life, the problem was a good thing because he escaped. If the dog didn’t escape he would’ve died inside that cage he was being trapped in. On A Boy’s Life, the problem was positive because everyone leaves school and begins their