Question

"The Story Behind the Bus" both tell about Rosa Parks’s famous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. However, each author writes for a different purpose and from a different point of view. How are the two presentations of the same event similar and different?

Answer 1

Thesis statement: Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus is a well-known event in American history that has been recounted in various forms. While the two texts, Rosa Parks: My story and
"The story behind the bus," share similarities in their depiction of the event, they differ in their purpose, style, and point of view.
Both Rosa Parks: My story and "The story behind the bus" tells the story of Rosa Parks's famous refusal to give up her seat on a montgomery bus. The texts recount the events leading up to her arrest and the subsequent boycott that followed. In Rosa Parks: My Story, parks narrates the events from her own point of view. She describes her personal experiences, feelings, and thoughts during the incident.