Comparison

Comparison Comparative Studies between Two Essays “The Brown Wasps” by Loren C. Eiseley and “The Spider and the Wasp” by Alexander Petrunkevitch are two essays from the same book, “Decker Patterns of Exposition”, by Randall E. Pecker and Robert A. Schwegler, published by Scott, Foresman & Co., Greenview, Illinois, London, England. It is obvious that the two essays use the same object, wasp, which is not a kind of insect easily seen or found. Both authors try to make this little creature his main character in the essay, for different purposes of course. In "The Brown Wasps", Loren gives wasp some symbolic meanings, and compare human beings including himself with the wasp. “Like the brown wasp, he will have his wish to die in the great droning center of the hive rather than in some lonely room.” (P. 130) “Prematurely I am one of the brown wasps and I often sit with them in the great droning hive of the station, dreaming sometimes of a certain tree.” (P. 135) Wasp has become a symbol in Loren’s essay, which is very much different from it is in Alexander’s "The Spider and the Wasp" . This time, wasp is the “archenemy” of the tarantula, a wasp, different, two, wasps, spider, same, brown, tarantula, theme, readers, natural, great, essays, essay, alexander, things, process, loren, little, field, author, about, writing, world, very, tell, place, pigeons, mouse, kind, authors, zoologist, usage, university, tries