Have you ever noticed that two random things can be really alike, yet very different? I did. I just had to look at the story of my life. It made me think about comparing people to something I really like - books. It doesn't seem likely that there are a lot of similarities between the two, but trust me, there's plenty! However, books and people have their differences too.
Books and people do have similarities. Such as, we both have "covers" to hide our stories or history under - people's "covers" aren't made of paper, but they can certainly hide the story.
Both books and people have stories to tell, and they can be surprising or unexpected. And characters in a book can show feelings, just like people. Finally, if we're broken or ripped, it takes awhile to mend either of us back together.
Books are simply paper and ink that tell a good story. But like the process of a person's life, books are a lot of work to get told. Books start with the writer's ideas, then go writing, editing and rewriting, before finally publishing, and the work of selling a manuscript!
People are made of flesh and blood, different from books. Even so, books can speak and communicate with you, although not verbally. People communicate both verbally and non-verbally. We can talk with our hands, our face and actions, as well as with words, just like books do, even using all the messaging systems we've devised.
It was surprisingly easy to find similarities for these two very different topics - easier than I would have thought, anyway! Differences were pretty easy to find too. While books are inanimate objects, humans are living, breathing creatures who create life stories, not just tell them!
Anna R.
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