Lexi+S~Ko+vs.+Timothy

**Compare and contrast essay!!**

Ko and Timothy are very alike but different. Ko is from the book, __So Far From__ __The Bamboo Grove__, and Timothy is from the book __The Cay__. The authors of these books are, //Yoko Kawashima Watkins//, __ So Far From The Bamboo Grove ,__ and //Theodore Taylor// from __ The Cay .__ Ko is a teenage Japanese girl, living in Korea. She has 1 brother and 1 sister. Because the war came to her hometown, her mother, her sister, and her had to get to Seoul. On the other hand timothy is an old black man, which is from Charlotte Amalie.

In the book, __So Far From The Bamboo Grove__, Ko is friendly. She shows that she is friendly, when she preformed for Corporal Metamora. After she preformed in front of him she was talking to him and everyone else. Also when she went to school she was friendly to all the girls in her school, even though they made fun of her. In addition to Ko, Timothy is an old black man, from the book __The Cay__. In the book __The Cay__, Timothy shows that he is grumpy, in the begging of the book, when he first met Phillip he was acting all smart alicy and like he knows every thing. Then when they got to the island he would not share his water with Phillip.

Ko and Timothy both act like leaders. Ko acts like a leader, when her mother and sister didn’t know witch way to go. She lead them until they got to the place that they wanted to get too. Timothy acted like a leader, when Phillip went blind he helped him find his way places.

Ko and Timothy are also alike because they are both caring. Ko is caring because when her mother died, she made sure that the people that took care of dead people got her body. Then kept her ashes and made sure they were in a safe place. She also put her thing where they can’t get broken or stolen. Timothy showed that he is caring because when there was a big storm, on the island he made sure that Phillip and Stew-Cat were safe and under the shelter.

As you can see Ko and Timothy are alike but different. Again Ko is from the book __So Far From The Bamboo Grove__. By //Yoko// //Kawashima Watkins//, and Timothy is from the book __ The Cay .__ By //Theodore Taylor//.