A Boy's Life Comparison

Emancipation - A Fable Life & an excerpt from “A Boy’s Life”
Even though a story about a boy and an animal have similar qualities they still may be very different. Once when I was in kindergarten I punched a kid in the back because he got up when he wasn’t allowed to. I got in trouble and was given an administrative detention, I sat there for one and a half hours. I wanted to escape from the principal's office; I wanted my freedom just like the animal in “Emancipation - A Life Fable” and the kids in the excerpt from “A Boy’s Life.” The two texts shared the theme, but went about it in different ways. This essay will discuss the similar theme of freedom in both texts while contrasting the way the main character experienced freedom.
“Boy’s Life” is about a teacher who does not have anyone or anything to go home to that she can spend her summer with. “Emancipation - A Life Fable” is about a dog being born with nothing and escaping into the world and having freedom to do anything it wanted. For instance in “A Boy’s Life” it shows Cory think to himself that “Summer alone is no summer at all.” Conversely, “Emancipation - A Life Fable” the animal wants to escape “He thrust his head, to see the canopy of the sky grow broader.” States the text. As
In “A Boy’s Life” it has the main character, Cory Mackenson, sitting in the classroom waiting for the last bell of the school year to ring. He thinks to himself “She wanted to hold us as long as she possibly could...” Similarly in Emancipation - A Life Fable the animal is born in a cage and he wants to escape in the passage it states “There was once an animal born into this world, and opening his eyes upon Life, he saw about and about him confining wall, and before him were bars of iron through which came air and light from without; this animal was born in a cage.” Even though these two passages are similar in some ways they are also very