VS




Compare and Contrast of Thirsty and The Book that I Read Before

I will compare "Thirsty" Book with my last book "The Orange Houses" by Paul Griffin. Both of the books look the sam as the characteritics of the characters but in Thirsty there is more imagination from the author because there are vampires, ,in real life there is no vampires. In The Orange Houses book there are more realistic characters and events. In Thirsty there are some extraordinary events like lynching vampires. I think Thirsty is newer book because it says "We go to McDonald's. I order a double hamburger, six-piece McNugget, and a medium fries." (Page 8, Line 12) We can understand that this story is in the times that McDonald's is popular. The Orange Houses can be in modern times too but the characters are poor so they can't go to McDonald's or in the place that is popular in those years. Maybe there are some modern  restaurants but it is can not be written in the book. In The Orange Houses main theme is about illegal immigration and friendship but in Thirsrty it seems it will be only about vampires or it can be about friendship too because in the story Chris have some friends but they are distant friends. Maybe after some events in the story they start to have a little war with vampires and they can start to become close friends again. In The Orange Houses the book is generally about a girl whose name is Tamika Sykes. She uses hearing aids to hear people because she is hard of hearing. In Thirsy main character is Chris. Chris looks a bit interesting for me because after a while in the story he starts to act like a vampire because he says "For a few months now, I have been feeling hungrier and hungrier. Food does not seem to fill me up."(Page 13, Line 4) He is describing the vampires with ssaying that they are always hungry. He became hungrier also. So, he can start to become a vampire. If he becomes a vampire, the story becomes interesting for the reader. If there would be vampires in The Orange Houses book, the book would become very bad because The Orange Houses book is normally hard if we add vampires into it, it would become ultra hard. These two books are generally different because one of them is about extraordinary things and the other one is about social life of an American girl. These two books have a lot of scenes about friends. We can understand from these words "Tom and Jerk are my two best friends I guess. When we were younger, we used to spend the afternoons running around in the woods together and we stayed over at one another's house and all." From these words we can understand that he had best friends. In The Orange Houses the main character has a lot of friends too. These were the things that are similar and different. These two books are very good If I was you I would read them.

Images are from(in order):

-http://greattweenreads.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/thirsty-by-m-t-anderson/
-http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139014-the-orange-houses
-http://www.decanter.com/news/wine-news/502369/barossa-rejects-mcdonald-s