Essay Comparison

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

old goose represents the old age of the narrator in the story. Since the narrator is old, he does not feel sympathy or compassion for the younger goose because his life is just starting. The young goose and narrator take on two different lives in which there is no activities or ideas in life that are the same. Also, in “The Battle of the Ants”, the ants represent “…. a war between two races ”. (1746). These fighting ants are being compared to humans because the main purpose is to kill. “The more you think of it, the less difference.” (1747). Even after both ants were withdrawn from the war on the wood chips, they both continued to fight until one was killed. Not only did this war take on human characteristics; it resembles a part in American history. The essay was written in 1854, several years before the Civil War began. It became a piece of literature that described the future between the North and the South and Black and White. ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

between him and the old goose because they have both lived a long life and are preparing for a state of life that will come to an end. The narrator’s old age can be proven by the date that this essay was written in. E.B. White was born in 1899 and wrote “The Geese” in 1971 leaving him seventy- two years old. On the other hand, in “The Battle of the Ants”, there is no personal connection that can be seen between the ants and the narrator. He sees what he sees and does not judge the ants that are at war to his own personal life. He seemed to be more surprised to find such ants at a battle of race partially due to the face that there is not such a thing ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: