Compare the Way That Childhood Is Described In Peter Abraham'S Crackling Day and Sean O'faolain's The Trout

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COMPARE THE WAY THAT CHILDHOOD IS DESCRIBED IN PETER ABRAHAM’S CRACKLING DAY AND SEÁN O’FAOLÁIN’S THE TROUT

In the stories, Crackling Day (written by Peter Abraham) and The Trout       (written by Seán O’Faoláin), are in there own way similar. They are both 20th Century stories. They both make you feel sympathy for the children. They were joyful at the beginning of the stories they are in, but cruelty be found them through the middle of the story, and tortured them.

The Trout is an Irish short story, about a girl called Julia who finds a trout stuck in a well and desires for the trapped trout to be free. Crackling day is possible a South African short story, about a Black boy (from hereon I’ll call him Dale) who lives with his Uncle Sam and Aunt Liza in on a plantation owned by a racist White man (Bass), whose son picks on the Black boy and gets him in trouble.

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The similarities between the two stories, is that they are both 20th century short stories, both about their childhood and how they realise the way the world works. There is a part of The Trout when Julia little brother wonders how the trout got to be in the well, and her mum makes something up along the lines of

“ ‘So one day Daddy Trout And Mammy Trout....’ When he retailed to her she said ‘pooh’”

This shows that she no longer believes in made up stories such as that. There is also another point in Crackling Day ...

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