"Baby Love" and "Mothership Down" Compare and Contrast Essay
Compare/Contrast Essay Often conflict between parents and their children are used within young adult fiction stories in order to develop the plot in the specific way. Conflict between parents and their children is an everyday struggle that all families must face, it often leads to a life lesson in which both the parents and children learn something new. Within the short stories “Mothership Down” by Marty Chan and “Baby Love” by Kathy Stinson this is precisely what has happened. In both pieces the conflict within the family (main character and parent) has resulted in a very negative way, as where the main character realizes his\her own mistakes and tries to own up to and resolve the situation and what it has become. In “Baby Love” by Kathy Stinson the main character happens to have a second chance to clean up the mess that she has created, unlike the main character in the story “Mothership Down” by Marty Chan. The main character in this text loses his chance to patch things up with his father, and he will never get the chance to. A similarity between “Baby Love” by Kathy Stinson and “Mothership Down” by Marty Chan is both characters have trouble communicating with their parents, this is why the plot developed the way it did and where the main conflict started. In the text it says “And she wished her mom was there. She should have said yes when her mom called earlier and offered to come home.” The narrator said this when Chelsea (the main character) realized that she needed the help that her mother persistently offered, but Chelsea was dead set against needing the help of her mother. In Chelsea’s mind her mother wasn’t trying to help, she was trying to take over the role of Abigail’s (Chelsea’s baby) mother. A similar event happens in the story “Mothership Down” by Marty Chan. It has been 3 long years since the main character in this text has spoken to his father all over a silly little miscommunication. The main character decides to call home and check in on