In this essay the central idea is compare and contrast two different books that happened in different historical events, the first book is The Taste of Rain that is about the second Sino-Japanese war that happened during 1937-1945, the narrator of this book is called Gwen, she narrates all this war in China and what happened to her, during the book she lives in a school for two and a half years with 139 girls .Also the second book called Nine, ten:a September 11 story is one story about the attack that happened in September 11, USA. In this book there is 4 different narrators Aimee, Naheed, Sergio and Will, but also there’s omniscient narrator.In both books we can observe similarities and differences between them, one difference between them is that both books occurs in different dates and in different countries.Even so, they have two similarities to each other, one of them being that both have child narrators, making the perspective of the story completely different than if it were an adult telling it and that in the book The Taste of Rain and Nine, Ten: A Story a September 11 story the characters has different types of narrators. Another similarity that we can also observe is that in both main characters they learn that no matter how different you are from the other person, you should always respect them, help them if they need it and that if you see an injustice happening to someone even if you are not close to the person, fight for that to change.
The book The Taste of Rain talks about the Second Sino-Japanese War or War of Resistance which is how the Chinese call this war, this conflict takes place between 1937-1945 but in the book the narrator only narrates between 1941-1945, when the Japanese invaded China people who are not from China have to wear a red armband with the initial letter of the country they come from, an example of this is Gwen the main character of the story, because as she is American she ends up having to wear it a red armband with the letter A. Yet, in the book Nine, Ten: A Story a September 11 story the time in which it takes place, the country and the consequences of this conflict are totally different. This book takes place in 2001 in the USA, it tells about a terrorist attack that took place on September 11, this attack took place because of a conflict that had begun in 1970 with the United States and Al-Qaeda, which was a terrorist organization that in time was led by Osama bin Laden, who was an Arab multimillionaire, unlike the book The Taste of Rain, the book Nine, Ten: A Story a September 11 story had as one of the consequences the attack on the twin towers.
In addition, we can note that both books have different types of narrators, the amount they have and the type of power each character has, for example, the book The Taste of Rain has only one narrator in the entire story, and she is just one child named Gwen who narrates the whole story from her perspective and the information she has, being more limited than the information an adult has access to. Gwen has a strong leadership power among the girls who live with her, about Miss E. and to convince everyone to do the right thing and to convince them to tell her something they want to know. Different from the book Nine,Ten: A Story a September 11 story that has an omniscient narrator and four main narrators called Aimee, Naheed, Will and Sergio, having access to different perspectives and different opinions about some events, contrary to what happens in the book The Taste of Rain where we only have access to Gwen’s perspective. The omniscient narrator narrates with the perspective of someone who is outside, that is, with a completely different perspective of who is experiencing the story. In this book we can notice that each character has a different type of power, for example Will has a lot of power over his brothers and to convince her mother to do something, unlike Aimee who doesn’t have much power over her family or her friends, only at certain times she manages to have enough power to convince someone to do what she wants, the same happens with Naheed, Sergio already has more power over his friends, managing to convince them to do what he wants or to participate in lake with him.
In the previous paragraph we can analyze the difference in types of narrators found in the books, and the types of power in both book, but we can also find something in common which is that both main characters learn valuable lessons about respect each other.One evidence of that is that in the book Nine, Ten: A Story a September 11 story the main character are totally different, Naheed, an American Muslim from Columbus, Ohio; Will, a white boy from Shanksville, Pennsylvania; Aimee, a white girl from Los Angeles, California; and Sergio, a black boy who lived in Brooklyn and in all the moments that this characters meat each other or someone that is different from them they do not judge you and whenever they can they help you and when that characters see someone being wronged they fight to what is right, we can see that during the terrorist attacks they help all that they can, and another example is when they are at home and something wrong happens to someone in the family, they go there and fight to defend them.The same happened in the book The Taste of Rain that Gwen when was isolated in the school with another 139 girls don’t matter how different they are.She always helps others and when she sees something that is not fair to some of these girls she fights so that this injustice does not happen whenever she can, like when she has to be in the school during the war, and when some of the Japanese do some injustice to them she is ready to fight and to do the right thing.
In conclusion, can noticed that both books have so many aspects to contrast that we can see in the paragraphs above, but they also have some aspects to compare.In the books The Taste of Rain and Nine, Ten: a September 11 story we learn that even though we are different from each other we must always respect and help them, that depending on who is narrating the story will have a different perspective if someone else is narrating, that each one has a different type of power in their life, that a book can have more than one type of narrator and that sometimes even two conflicts happening on different dates can have things in common and that don’t matter your age, culture and religion you always can do the right thing.
