Genres Ill Equipped Rescuers - 1052 Words

Melissa Ponce Ms. Mayer Honors English II 25 October 2012 Comparing and Contrasting Themes Across Genres Creating a theme helps fiction writers convey an important message. The story And of Clay Are We Created, is fictionalized from the newspaper article Ill Equipped Rescuers. Both the story and the newspaper article express a similar theme and purpose, but they also have some difference in them. In And of Clay Are We Created and Ill Equipped Rescuers, authors Isabel Allende and Bradley Graham use terms like loss and hopelessness to develop a theme that portrays the devastating tragedy that struck Colombia. In the fiction story And of Clay Are We Created, Allende focuses its theme more on memory and reminiscence. For†¦show more content†¦By doing this they are putting themselves at risk of getting caught in the rubble. This proves that Rolf Carlà © and the rescue teams are unselfish and do everything in their power to save those in desperate need of their help. They both also express hopelessness. In the story this is shown throug h Azucena. She gives up hope of being rescued while being stuck in the mud for three days. She knows she will die. Azucena starts to lose all faith because she can feel her body weakening and she is in a lot if pain. Rolf Carlà © tries to have her keep faith by telling her hes going to save her and that the pump to suck the mud out would arrive shortly. Rolf Carlà © truly did believe he was going to save her. When the pump arrived though, Azucena had given up her hope completely. In Grahams newspaper article, hopelessness is expressed through the thirty-four year old man, Efrain Gomez Primo. He was stuck under his collapsed house. His brother told him not to worry and that help was on the way but he never returned. Then a Civil Defense worker saw him but lacked the tools needed and he left. The man started losing hope. When help actually arrived and stayed to help, he said he felt half dead and said he was having trouble breathing. He thought he was going to die. The rescuers were able to save him from the rubble. He had a broken leg though, but he was out. Alferez, the Red Cross