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The Confrontation
 In the short stories, ‘The Fight’ and The Confrontation’, two males are faced with challenges of pride and acceptance. While these stories are very similar they have two different morals. Both stories share a lot of things when it comes to their confrontations. To begin, both narrators are being confronted outdoors as well as in front of an audience. In ,a href="http://tnellen.com/westside/stories/barrio">‘The Confrontation’ the author says “Manuel felt a thrill of power course through his nerves. He had never won anything before.” Both narrators were confident and determined to stand up for themselves as well as the deep pride within them that they represented. In both stories, the opposing characters ultimately backed down from the narrators. After their initial confrontations, the narrators in both stories received support and respect from their audience. Both narrators felt an extreme sense of accomplishment and satisfaction afterward as well. Aside from their similarities, both stories have distinct parallel differences. In ‘The Confrontation’, the narrator is a grown man over-working for his children and hard-earned money and the only logical thing next to nothing for him to have done was to stand up to his boss. The narrator did not plan on acting out the way he did, but did not regret it either. He is humble in his actions that he knows he will have to pay for later, but is grateful for standing up for money that is rightfully his nonetheless. In ‘The Fight’, the narrator is a boy fighting in a schoolyard for respect and self-pride and inflates the situation further by arming himself afterward. Not only is the reason for his actions childish but also his gratitude for being accepted within his school only made him grow to be cocky. ‘The Fight’ both deal with two young men proving themselves and succeeding, one for respect and the other out of justice.
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