A DIFFERENT KIND OF HERO
This essay is compelling in my eyes because it seems to be straight from the heart and completely honest. The story this writer used was when hurricane Katrina rampaged threw her home town, New Orleans. The tone she uses is serious mixed with some reflection type of tone. She achieves this by dueling on her past experiences and how they affected and changed her life.
LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST
To me this essay is compelling because going threw a tornado is a scary situation. Something like that will definitely be a life changing experience. She already has an idea about how life is not based on property or objects, but uses the tornado to emphasize how it made her realize it even more. The tone used in this essay is also some what serious.
The two essays are similar because they both use past experiences to show how it has changed their future. Both the authors also use the similar tones in their writings. They are different although because in A Different Kind Of Hero she realizes that she is a hero after the fact that Hurricane Katrina hit. In Living Life To The Fullest she knew what she believed before the tornado hit. Both essays follow the guidelines described in the instructions.
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i agree with your take on a different kind of hero.and the live life to the fullest is very similar to the other. i read a different kind of hero too.
Regarding the This I Believe essay about surviving the tornado, you state that "Something like that will definitely be a life changing experience." I wonder if, as a reader, you find this makes the essay more or less interesting or compelling? If we expect something, or accept it as true with little argument or explanation, does this afect how much we enjoy the text, or how artful we believe the author to be?
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