One story has a positive tone towards the kids immigrating to the U.S. while the other has a more negative feeling. The settings are quite different, one being set in modern day and the other in the 1950s. They differ from each other by one being hopeful and the other being hopeless to the thought of their troubles ever getting better. “The Red Umbrella” tells the story from the point of view of the kids immigrating to the U.S., while “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” is from the point of view of a woman struggling to care for the hundreds of immigrant
One story has a positive tone towards the kids immigrating to the U.S. while the other has a more negative feeling. The settings are quite different, one being set in modern day and the other in the 1950s. They differ from each other by one being hopeful and the other being hopeless to the thought of their troubles ever getting better. “The Red Umbrella” tells the story from the point of view of the kids immigrating to the U.S., while “A Band-Aid for 800 Children” is from the point of view of a woman struggling to care for the hundreds of immigrant