Daddy Tuckled the Blanket

One of the main similarities is that they were both written from a victim¡¯ s perspective. The author of ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡± is a victim of social bias against poor people; similarly, the author of ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡± is a victim of an irrational high school administration. Also, we can feel great anger in both essays. In ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡±, the anger is against the social prejudice concerning poverty. When his teacher asked all the children to describe what they got for Christmas gifts, Williams clearly shows us his anger. He writes: ¡°I never forgave them . . . ¡± His indignation is not only at those classmates and the teacher who tore his heart into pieces, but also at anyone who looked down upon him just because of his family¡¯s poverty. Likewise, in ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡±, French is furious about the unfai

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r treatment which he and other teenagers received from the high school administration. Conversely, in ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡±, Williams isn¡¯t regretful, instead, he does his best to reverse the situation by getting the scholarship, trying to paint the house and becoming the ¡°regular guy¡±, etc. The anger in his heart doesn¡¯t diminish even when he becomes an adult: ¡°I¡¯d still like to know, for one thing, what the length of my hair had to do with my forehead. French supports revolt against the high school administration by saying ¡°I think they should do it [step forward and be against unfair treatment] more often.

To sum up, although they have similarity in their perspectives and some common elements such as anger and sympathy, the two essays are very different in their tones and goals. ¡± He gives us the feeling of hopelessness: ¡°You will go mad from the sheer sense of futility. I had been ashamed for as long as I had been conscious of class. On the other hand, ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡± emphasizes inciting teenagers to get their freedom back. ¡± He expects the overthrow of the ¡°petty rules¡± which were made by the high school administrator. We can see the satirizing and ridicule in the way French describes the excuse of the high school officers: ¡°The rational for the rule was that shorts - but not miniskirts - were too ¡®distracting¡¯¡±. ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡± was written in a heavy- hearted mood; Williams shows us his sufferings by recounting his past. ¡± Furthermore, French says ¡°if there¡¯s anything I regret about my own days in high school, it¡¯s that most of us didn¡¯t fight against the absurdity with every ounce of adolescent ingenuity and irreverence we had¡±. In ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡±, Williams is deeply sympathetic for his family as he writes about his sisters, ¡°But the girls got the pressure, and as they got older it became worse. ¡± It is apparent to us that these sentences are actually saying: ¡°you [teenagers] should.

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Approximate Word count = 752
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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