Question

Note: The characters in the two passages live in different historical eras.

Passages:
A: It was freezing cold out on the Prairie, but Daniel trudged on. He had to find firewood. His mother was ill. She needed the warmth of a fire. So many people on the wagon train had died. Daniel was scared. He wondered if they would ever reach Oregon by the end of 1861.

B: "Hello, Chicago Power Company?" Bob said into the phone. "I need you to come fix our furnace. The heat won't come on, and it's very cold. My mother's sick. It's a fairly new furnace, too. Mom said it was installed in 2005. Can you come right away?" He hung up and got blankets out of the closet to cover his mother until help came.

Compare and contrast the two characters in these passages. In your answer, be sure to identify the setting of each passage and the conflict faced by each boy. How does the historical era in which each boy lives affect his conflict? Use events and details from the passages to support your ideas.

Answer 1

There are two different scenes in the passage

The first one is set on the outside of a wagon train before or during the year 1861, while the second scene is set on a house after the year 2005.

The first boy is trying to get some wood to warm his mother who is ill and he has to walk to get it. The second boy has her mother ill too, but he has to face with the problem of electricity, so he just makes a phone call to the power company to fix it.

The main difference between the historical era in which they live, when trying to solve the conflict, is that one has to solve the problem himself while the other boy makes a phone call and another person solves the problem for him.