Compare Disasters

Think about the Krakauer story and the story of the Titanic. How are they similar? How are they different? What about the way they are told? Are there similarities and differences in the narrative accounts?

• The Krakuer story and the story of the Titanic are similar because in these two stories, there are both disasters that took away many lives. Also, both of the disasters were resulted because people were too careless and proud. In the Titanic, people were too proud and believed that the Titanic was unsinkable. They didn't even bother to watch out for ice bergs or do emergency practices. Also, because they were so proud, not a lot of people went on the life saving boats. This was what caused the tragic death of so many people. 
• One of the main differences between the Krakauer story and the story of the Titanic was the the previous occurred on land while the latter occurred on the sea. The reasons why people died were also different. In the Krakauer story, people died because of a lack of care for the weather. In the story of the Titanic, people died because of their pride, which eventually caused them to bump into the ice berg and freeze to death in the freezing sea water. 
• They story is told in very different ways. In the Krakuer story, the story was told in a first person point of view in a story form from the author and narrator, Job Krakuer. In the story of the Titanic, however, the story was told in a third person point of view in the form of a story as well. The different point of views changes the style of the story. Also the time for when each story was written also effects the style. The story of the Titanic was written a long time after the event actually happened, while Krakuer's story was written quite close to the time period after the event occurred.