Question

Consider the main characters from "Stolen Day" and "The Night the Bed Fell." In a paragraph, discuss which character learns the most and which one learns the least. Use details from the selections to support your ideas.

Answer 1

The protagonist in 'Stolen Day' learns the most through self-realization, while characters in 'The Night the Bed Fell' learn the least as they undergo little to no change.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the stories "Stolen Day" and "The Night the Bed Fell," the character who learns the most is the protagonist of "Stolen Day," a young boy who concocts a belief that he has inflammatory rheumatism. Through his experience, he gains a deeper understanding of his family's concern—or lack thereof—and the consequences of seeking attention through deception. On the contrary, the characters in "The Night the Bed Fell" do not exhibit significant personal growth or learning. James Thurber, the protagonist of this story, recounts chaotic family events humorously, with the characters remaining largely unchanged. The boy from "Stolen Day" undergoes a transformation in realizing the folly of his ways, thus learning the most among the characters from both stories.

Answer 2

For Stolen day I have,


The plot for "The Night The Bed Fell" starts with James Thurber's explaining his "interesting" family, including a crazy cousin that thinks he will die of suffocation during his sleep, and a grandfather that leaves the house for several days, coming back talking about a war that happened decades ago. When James falls out of his army cot and his mom mistakes the crash for his father's death, the story starts to get chaotic. The Night the Bed Fell

One night when Thurber crashes down from his army cot, Briggs comes to the immediate conclusion that the heavy headboard up in the attic had crashed down on the father, fatally injuring him. She started shouting and on hearing the shouts, Herman who is the narrator's brother thinks that mother has become hysterical, and so assures her that she is alright.then wakes up Briggs Beall who is the narrator's nervous first cousin who wakes up thinking that the hue and cry in the house was going on due to his ceasing breath, and so he pours over himself a glass of camphor spirit to revive himself. Roy and the dog wake up. At last the father who's the deepest sleeper in the house wakes up thinking that the house is on fire. When he says that he is coming his wife thinks that he's going up to the heavens. After a while the incident gets sorted out and mother who was quite optimistic in nature concludes and feels safe that her father-in-law was not at home.