The Man In The Well

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Throughout life we make our own decisions. Helping others is one of them. In the stories, "The man in the well" and "If you touched my heart", The victims who were left alone were not helped by people at the moment they faced difficulties. Everything happens for a reason and then this case the victims go through a hard situation in getting help. There are various similarities and differences in both of the stories about the victims trapped that needed help.
One of the similarities both stories go through is that the children are the ones that find these people in miserable places Children are curious and find things they don't intend to on purpose. In the story, "The Man in the Well", Aaron was playing outside minding …show more content…
One of them was being helped at the end of the story, People have different opinions in this case one group of the children from one of the stories decided to help put the man and the other group did not; In the story, The Man in the Well, "Before we left that day, as we were rising quietly and looking at the dark shadows of the trees we had to move through to reach our homes, he said, "why didn't you tell anyone?" (The Man in the Well 26) The Man seemed to be upset with the children. Since the children decided not to help the man out, it turned out most likely for the man to die in the well that day by drowning in it since it rained, On the other hand, the children from the story, If You Touched My Heart, the children spread out the word they had found the door to hell. Allende states, "Everyday at ten in the morning, Hortensia, with the faltering step of a madwoman, tottered down to the prison where she handed the guard at the gate a warm saucepan for the prisoner. (If You Touched My Heart 526) When Hortensia was rescued, she forgave Peralta and ended up being on the news unlike the Man who probably died and never got rescued. She did not recover from the years she was down in the cell locked up but she still loved Peralta throughout what he had put her through. She continued live, while nobody knew what happened to the
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