The short stories, “Sex Education” by Dorothy Canfield, “The Other Foot” by Ray Bradbury, and “The Purple Horse” by Anne Schraff all have commonalities between the character’s actions and consequences. In the short story “Sex Education”, a woman named Aunt Minnie tells her story of an unfortunate event where she makes the decision to go into the woods after being warned not to. In the short story “The Other Foot”, the white people from Earth bomb their planet where they further ask the black people of Mars for help. Furthermore, in “The Purple Horse”, a shy insecure teenage boy finds the courage to stand up for himself after winning class president. The characters of Canfield’s story make their decisions based off of conflicts they face. Also,
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The main character Willie lives on Mars with a community of black people while the white people are still on Earth. Willie will only allow the whites to move to Mars if the blacks are able to discriminate them when he says “they can come up and live and work here; why, certainly. All they got to do to deserve it is live in their own small part of town, the slums, and shine our shoes for us, and mop up our trash, and sit in the last row in the balcony. That’s all we ask. And once a week we hang one of two of them. Simple” (Bradbury 7). At first, …show more content…
The main character, Pete Kellogg is a lonesome, shy, insecure teenage boy who has been bullied his whole life. At first, Pete rejects the idea of running for class president against his best friend because he “felt like Benedict Arnold sneaking over to the British side with all the secrets. I was committing treason. Treason against Vern Teal, my friend” (Schraff 12). Pete is refusing to run for class president because he feels as if no one will vote for
The main character Willie lives on Mars with a community of black people while the white people are still on Earth. Willie will only allow the whites to move to Mars if the blacks are able to discriminate them when he says “they can come up and live and work here; why, certainly. All they got to do to deserve it is live in their own small part of town, the slums, and shine our shoes for us, and mop up our trash, and sit in the last row in the balcony. That’s all we ask. And once a week we hang one of two of them. Simple” (Bradbury 7). At first, …show more content…
The main character, Pete Kellogg is a lonesome, shy, insecure teenage boy who has been bullied his whole life. At first, Pete rejects the idea of running for class president against his best friend because he “felt like Benedict Arnold sneaking over to the British side with all the secrets. I was committing treason. Treason against Vern Teal, my friend” (Schraff 12). Pete is refusing to run for class president because he feels as if no one will vote for