Comparing and Contrasting the Lessons Characters Learn

Comparing and Contrasting the Lessons Characters Learn

Let's Think about Dyamonde and Opal

• both new kid in town

• both live with just one parent

• both missing someone

Now Let's Notice How These Two Main Characters Finally Resolve Things

We know that when a character resolves what's most troubling him, he comes away from it having learned a lesson. Let's think, are there similarities? Are there differences?

Hold your thinking about that scene with Dyamonde in your mind for a moment.

On the next slide, listen as I read a part where Opal says good-bye to her mother. As I read, do a little comparing. Has Dyamonde learned a similar lesson? Do you see differences too?

Open Ended

How are those two scenes similar?

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How are those two scenes different?

You might have noticed these similarities..

• both girls say good-bye to someone they love

• both girls say goodbye by talking to an important object

• each girl talks about something new in her life

You might have noticed these differences...

• Opal's mom is probably never going to come back--which makes her good-bye in many ways feel sadder than Dyamonde's good-bye to Alisha

• Dyamonde can still see her friend

• Dyamonde knows where her friend is, she just won't see her often