A Small, Good Thing and The Bath: A Comparison
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Jonjay Tajaran English 101 Professor Heaney March 04, 2015 A Good Thing, A Bad Thing
I’ll be discussing the similarities and differences of the story “A Small, Good Thing” and
“The Bath.” In the first story “A Small, Good Thing”, it is much more satisfying story because it lets the reader’s experience the tragedy of Scotty's death as well as the redemption of the baker.
It also creates a greater sense of the tragedy because the story helps readers understand that everyone in this story is a victim, the parents, the doctors, and the baker himself. The author also includes a Negro family that can relate to the situation that the parents are in. In the second story
“The Bath”, It ends in a cliffhanger because leads to readers confused and dazed since they do not know the outcome of Scotty’s death unknown. The husband’s name was never introduced and the mother’s name was introduced towards the end of the story. The major differences in these two versions of the same story “A Small, Good Thing and “The Bath” are the extension of plot, point of view, and dialog.
There are other factors to the writing that increase the reader's interest in the first story.
First, the author gives all the characters names, a basic point that brings to readers closer to the story. Secondly, the author spends more time inside the point of view of the parents. The mother’s name is Ann and the husband’s name is Howard. The author did not focus on Ann’s point of view in the story “The Bath” but the father is fully known. He has no name, and can hear
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only a bit of his thoughts regarding the situation. In the story, “A Small, Good Thing” the author not only enhance the connection of the reader to Ann and Howard by actively naming them, but also shows how they are connected to each other. “For the first time, she felt they were together in this trouble. She realized with a start that, until now, it had only been happening to her and to
Jonjay Tajaran English 101 Professor Heaney March 04, 2015 A Good Thing, A Bad Thing
I’ll be discussing the similarities and differences of the story “A Small, Good Thing” and
“The Bath.” In the first story “A Small, Good Thing”, it is much more satisfying story because it lets the reader’s experience the tragedy of Scotty's death as well as the redemption of the baker.
It also creates a greater sense of the tragedy because the story helps readers understand that everyone in this story is a victim, the parents, the doctors, and the baker himself. The author also includes a Negro family that can relate to the situation that the parents are in. In the second story
“The Bath”, It ends in a cliffhanger because leads to readers confused and dazed since they do not know the outcome of Scotty’s death unknown. The husband’s name was never introduced and the mother’s name was introduced towards the end of the story. The major differences in these two versions of the same story “A Small, Good Thing and “The Bath” are the extension of plot, point of view, and dialog.
There are other factors to the writing that increase the reader's interest in the first story.
First, the author gives all the characters names, a basic point that brings to readers closer to the story. Secondly, the author spends more time inside the point of view of the parents. The mother’s name is Ann and the husband’s name is Howard. The author did not focus on Ann’s point of view in the story “The Bath” but the father is fully known. He has no name, and can hear
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only a bit of his thoughts regarding the situation. In the story, “A Small, Good Thing” the author not only enhance the connection of the reader to Ann and Howard by actively naming them, but also shows how they are connected to each other. “For the first time, she felt they were together in this trouble. She realized with a start that, until now, it had only been happening to her and to