Kenneth+H.Ko+vs.+Virginia

Kenneth Honer 5/21/10 P2

“**Virginia and Ko”** Virginia Trask and Ko Kawashima are totally different people in two different time periods but share and differ character traits. Virginia Trask is eight from the book __Titanic Crossing__ by Barbara Williams.Virginia is traveling to America from England on the Titanic when the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Ko Kawashima is sixteen in the book __So far from the bamboo grove__. The Korean Communist Army attacked her home in Korea so she escaped with her family to Japan. __ Ko __ First, Ko is family oriented. Her family needed to get to Seoul to get to safe territory. They were escaping through woods so there was a shortage of food. Ko was family oriented so she went to a Korean farm and stole his corn. In addition, Ko is independent. When she escaped with her family to Kyoto, Japan her mother died at a train station. After that Ko was able to take care of Yoko(her little sister) and was able to earn money by making dresses. Last of all, Ko is persuasive. She tried to steal corn from a Korean farmer and was caught. She spoke perfect Korean and told the man she was Korean and just hungry. She escaped with the corn. __ Virginia __ Virginia is very different and similar to Ko. Unlike Ko, she is self-oriented. She wined for tea and scones regardless of what her mom and brother wanted. Her mom gave in and pushed her in a wheelchair to another restaurant on the ship that served tea and scones. Dissimilar to Ko, Virginia is dependent. When Virginia got on the ship she hid behind her mom because she was scared of the people on the ship. Like Virginia, she is persuasive. She knew that her mom was worried that one of her children would get appendicidis since there dad died of it. So once they got on the boat she pretended that she had appendicidis so she could be pushed around the big boat. Her mom then pushed her around the boat.

As you can see the characters are different and similar. The authors put them in different situations but make them have the same character traits. One is fictionous and the other is real but the authors make them similar in ways. Although they are written by different authors they share and differ character traits.