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Comparison of two short stories: Mrs. Pulaska by Christopher Burns and
My Good Fairy by Christopher Hope

Mrs. Pulaska and My Good Fairy are both stories in which a child describes a memory of a certain person. Both stories are written in the past tense "She had sought refuge among us" and "Nicomedus was a big giver". Both stories are also written in the first person, so the viewpoint is the same. In Mrs. Pulaska a child tells about Mrs. Pulaska's role in the community and how she differed so much from the normal people. In My good Fairy a child tells about Nicomedus, a generous person who actually is nobody. The narrator tells about his relation with this person and what kind of person Nicomedus was. In both the introductions the narrator is a child, in Mrs. Pulaska the narrator uses "my schoolfriends and me". The roles of these narrators are the same. They tell about what they know about the person in the story, and how they feel about them.......

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