The Ghost Bird

About 1,000,000 books are published in a year in the US , do you think two books are alike, they don’t even have to be the same-but just have one similarity? Well i’ll tell you i’ve found two that are alike, and at the same time have there differences. What do you say? How about a book by Roland Smith called “The Ghost Bird” and “Animal Distress Calls” by Eliot Schrefer? I’ll explain to you why I chose these two right now. Birds live in lots of many states over the world, but some species have become extinct and some are on the verge of extinction. In each passage they relate to birds in some way whether it have them being sick or extinct-or maybe that they could go extinct. “The Ghost Bird” and “Animal Distress Calls” have the same theme of
In “Animal Distress Calls” the main character won’t give up on sick Josie(an ostrich) but he knows he can’t help her because he's just a kid and not a vet. For example in the text it says, “I know I can’t give Josie the same kind of help you can (Schrefer 29).” We can conclude that from that example the main character is really trying to help the bird as best as she can because she wants her to feel better and restore to full health. Similarly, in “The Ghost Bird” the characters attempt to save birds too, but this time only one. For example, Mrs.Gill tries to look for the birds through all of the birdhouses to find where the supposedly extinct birds may be nesting.“We’ve checked each bird house at least twice.” Mrs.Gill said(Smith 29)”, this textual evidence shows that everyone is trying hard no matter how many bird houses there are, they want to find the birds very badly to save their dwindling numbers and to prove that Mr.Tanner had seen those birds and he wasn’t crazy as the town had thought. Also there a humongous amount of bird houses at Mr.Tanner’s home so that's a tremendous amount of bird houses to look through. Therefore this evidence explains, “The Ghost Bird” and “Animal Distress Calls” both have the same
For example, in the text it says,“I didn’t think that until she dropped me off at the zoo(Schrefer 27).”This shows that her mom dropped her off at the zoo, so therefore she is on some sort of field trip or trip to the zoo.Also it shows that she didn’t think she was going until she was dropped off but she was dropped off and happy to be there. Similarly in “The Ghost Bird” it says, “At least 50 cars in front of Mr.Tanner’s house, including a new van and two police cars(Smith 25).” This shows that everyone was crowded at Mr.Tanner’s, and they were in his yard and everyone outside of his house, and so was Hannah once she followed the car who had asked where his house was. This also shows that so many cars were there so something very important was going on. Not to mention the fact that there were police cars there, so whatever was going on could’ve been dangerous there.Although these two stories have the same theme, there settings are completely different.

Therefore, these two stories have lots of things in common but also have lots of things that are different from each other, and that these two books are similar-even if they do have their differences they are overall similar. One similarity of “The Ghost Bird” and “Animal Distress Calls” is both of them have the same theme. These stories might