Comparing Ruckel And Tree-Ear

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In these stories, there are many similarities and differences. The stories present Ruckel and Tree-ear. Both orphans who have similar problems but very unlike concerns also. Both have no house but both have a home. A home is not a house or a place in which someone lives, but a place for warmth when the nights are cold, keeps the owner safe when there is a storm, and comforts him when he is sad, and is a place he can run if he wishes just to get away from things for a while. Both don not fully realize it, but they have one each, but are still presented with unlike problems, some are big and small, but to them, it is everything. Each are protected but one is loved and one is trying just to get through with being a child.
Tree-ear is an orphan
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