I need write a compare and contrast paper on 2 different books with the same theme??? Any book suggestions...?

Question

I have to write a paper that represents 2 books that are two different cultures having the same theme.
Example:Cinderella from a Native American perspective and from a Chinese perspective.With this paper I have share the commonalties, similarities and the cultural differences.

"Disney" book ideas...I found the book "The Golden Sandal" protrays Cinderella in a middle-eastern perpective...I'm not sure though, since the example form the teacher was Cinderella...what do you guys think?

Please...I need more suggestions for Childrens Literature???

Answer 1

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Life of Pi Yann Martel

Two very different cultures where the main character has to decide to deal with the culture surrounding himself. The two characters respond to relatively similar cultural influences and then develop. The Life of Pi is much more symbolic and you must really be looking for the theme to see it, but it is only a suggestion.

To your additional details, No... don't ever use the teachers example, as I talk to my teachers which I intern for, the use of anything similar to an example makes the teachers think that you didn't put a lot of effort into planning for the project.

Answer 2

It really depends on how much time you have and what you've already read. You could do Beowulf and Gardner's Grendel. Or Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. Or you could do Nathaniel Hawthorne and Poe. Many of their shorts deal with similar thematic issues. In the same way, you could compare and contrast works by Alice Walker and Toni Morrison.

Answer 3

I would suggest using "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton and "Kid B" by Linden Dalecki. They both have similiar themes but based in different eras.

I would also suggest "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angeleo and "Bastard Out of Carolina" by Dorothy Allison. These novels show innocence lost in children and the evils men will do. You may interchange Bastard for "The Color Purple" with the same themes.

The themes of these novels are very similiar while taken in different parts of the country and with different races and class.

Answer 4

Teh Aprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Kensington Market. Both deal with the cultural identities of small communities within a community.

Answer 5

i myself did some thing such as what you probably did, yet in a lesson plan. there are a number of distinctive variations to fairy memories. I did this for 1st graders, and used the books. "Cinderella" the classic tale, no longer Disney, "Dinorella" by way of Pamela Duncan Edwards, that's a dinosaur version of the story, and "Cendrillon" by way of Robert D. San Souci . on your paper, you may desire to %. from many distinctive variations of Cinderella, and come across the ameliorations interior the memories that relate to the cultural ameliorations of the place they tale happens. The amazon link is for a seek for cinderella, which incorporates distinctive variations of the story.

Answer 6

Maybe "The God of Small Things" (Arundhati Roy) and Shakespeare's "Romeo&Juliet"? Both deal with forbidden love. Or, if you don't want to use R&J because it's a play, you could substitute any other book dealing with forbidden love... there are plenty. It is, for example, one of the themes of "Mists of Avalon".

Answer 7

A Doll's House and Antigone (Torvald and Creon)

Answer 8

How about two plays? Antigone by Sartre and by Sophocles?

Answer 9

hamlet by shakespeare and oedipus king by sofocles