The Wall Of Remembrance: A Comparative Analysis

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If you compare two different texts or stories, you can realize that they will have something in contrast or they have comparisons. However, they have different conflicts; one story relates to the vietnam war and the other text relates to the accident of 9/11. In the text “ The Names” and “ The Wall of Remembrance,” they both share the same theme; The theme of remembrance. They share the same theme because they both relate to the carvings of people, people become emotional when looking at their loved ones names, and also when they give something or do something for their loved ones.

As explained in the first paragraph, the theme is related because they both share remembrance. But how? When the people come to the stone of the carvings of …show more content…
This allows them to remember that I gave something to someone. In the text The Names it states, “ In the morning, I walked out barefoot Among thousands of flowers Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears, And each had a name— Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal… When I peer into the woods, I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden As in a puzzle concocted for children. Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash, Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton, Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple.” This proves that the people put something to remember for example the person saw flowers all over that had names on them. In the text The Wall of Remembrance it states, “The outpouring of messages and mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is unique; no other national memorial has evoked such a response… Notes and letters left at the memorial are different. You understand, at least in part, the emotion behind them. And I remember a card left at the wall by a woman whose husband’s name was on one of the black granite panels. She had put the card there on what would have been their silver wedding anniversary— twenty-five years. It reminded me of how long the Vietnam War had been over —and of how long the important memories are part of our lives.” This proves that they leave cards for their remembrance, and also because they are now lonely because they lost their loved
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