Essay comparison
Essay comparisonDeath can be described as the lack of existence; state of being dead. Most of the time death is usually considered to be a problem for many of old age. It is also a part of life that is hard for people grasp because they lose loved one's. However, death also takes part in a time of war when two parties of an opposing team are at odds with one another. Innocent living creatures become victims of something that they have no control over. Most of the time war results in a massacre of one group or another until one team is defeated. Either way death is something that cannot be fixed or controlled. In “The Battle of the Ants”, written by Henry Thoreau and in “The Geese”, written by E.B. White, death is a problem in both stories. In “The Geese” and “The Battle of the Ants”, both stories are keen observers in nature, while one tends to focus on old age death, and the other tends to focus on death of a war.
In “The Geese” and “The Battle of the Ants”, there are several similarities. One similarity that can be seen in both of these essays is that animals represent human behavior. In “The Geese”, the old goose represents the old age of the narrator in the story. Since the narrator is old, he does not feel sympathy or compassion for the younger goose because his life is just starting. The young goose and narrator take on two different lives in which there is no activities or ideas in life that are the same. Also, in “The Battle of the Ants”, the ants represent “…. a war between two races ”. (1746). These fighting ants are being compared to humans because the main purpose is to kill. “The more you think of it, the less difference.” (1747). Even after both ants were withdrawn from the war on the wood chips, they both continued to fight until one was killed. Not only did this war take on human characteristics; it resembles a part in American history. The essay was written in 1854, several years before the Civil War began. It became a piece of literature that described the future between the North and the South and Black and White. This essay can almost be described exactly as how the Civil War took place.
Another similarity that takes place is that both of the people in the essays are observers to the fights that are taking place. They see that there is a problem between the ants and two geese, but neither one does anything to stop them. They both watch with deep insight as to what is going on and let the quarrel continue till there is defeat. In “The Geese”, “For a moment, I thought of...
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