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Faith Fiegel 5/25/10 Compare and Contrast


 * __ //Differences and Similarities// __**

Ko Kawashima is a Japanese teenager who lived in Korea and had to flee Korea because of World War II and on top of that she has to be very sneaky so she does not get caught by the Korean Officers. Mrs. Frisby is a mouse with four children and her youngest son is sick with pneumonia and cannot be moved. If that’s not bad enough the family has to move or they will face most certain death. Even though these two characters seem very different they have a lot in common. Each character is brave and caring but only one is trusting. Ko is from the novel **__So Far from the Bamboo Grove__** written by Yoko Kawashima and Mrs. Frisby is from the fictional book **__Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__** written by Robert C. O’Brien.

Ko is very brave because in the sequel to **__So Far from the Bamboo Grove__** entitled **__My Brother, My Sister and I__**, Their home gets caught on fire but Ko runs inside the burning home to get their Mother’s ashes. Ko is also brave because she went into the factory alone at night to make sure a strange man wasn’t dangerous. Just like Ko, Mrs. Frisby was brave in the fact that when she needed help she went to the owl knowing he could eat her but she goes to see him anyway for Timothy. She is also brave because when she got captured in the farmers home she did whatever it took to get out of the house and save timothy.

Ko is caring because she wants to keep her family safe. When Ko’s little sister Yoko starts throwing up Ko threw her body around her to make sure the Korean Officers did not see her. Which is similar to the part when Mrs. Frisby’s son timothy got sick and she did what she possibly could to save him. For example when her family needed food she went out early in the morning to get food so they would not starve.

There are many **differences** between Ko and Mrs. Frisby too. An example of a difference is that Mrs. Frisby has the ability to trust people. When the rats of NIMH said that they would help her she had to trust them because it was an emergency. Ko cannot trust anyone. If someone came up to Ko and said they would help her she would say no in a heartbeat because she doesn’t know if they are telling the truth. Since they had to escape Korea Ko can’t trust anyone but her family.

Ko and Mrs. Frisby had their ups and downs but they are two incredible characters and they both have been on incredible adventures. They both are caring, brave people and they are very adventurous. Even though they seem very different on the outside they are the same in many ways. Ko is an incredible teenager and Mrs. Frisby is a brave mother and they both did whatever they could to save their families.