Compare And Contrast Joe Boy And Vinny

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Would you ever jump off of a 50 foot precipice?In the story “The Raven” , Vinny and Joe-Boy are 15 year old Hawaiian boys. They are best friends. They are going to the ravine to cliff jump and swim. Two weeks and one day before their visit, a boy died jumping from the cliff.Vinny and Joe-Boy are different in many ways, yet are similar in a few ways.
Vinny cannot stand up to his friends. Vinny didn't want to go to the raven. He thought that if he told his friends that his mom didn't want him to go his friends would laugh at him.He even calls himself “weak”. Vinny didn't jump from the 50 foot ledge. Vinny didn't do what his friends wanted him to do and felt proud that he stood up to his friends, and doesn't always have to listen to them. …show more content…
Joe-Boy jumped “man style” off the 50 foot ledge (the one the dead boy jumped from and died). Joe-Boy said “Hey Vinny, look how a man does it”and jumped “man style”. Joe-Boy left the raven unimpressed. Vinny stood up to Joe-Boy and so he was surprised that Vinny didn't jump so Joe-Boy was unimpressed and thought he was weak and baby-ish. Even though Joe-Boy and Vinny are different they are similar in a few ways. They are both boys and 15 years old. They are both boys because of the names and on page 3 it says his and him so that means they are boys and the author says that they are 15 years old. They are also both Hawaiian. I know this because on page 3 the author says”Joe-Boy’s haloe girlfriend” and haloe means not Hawaiian so that means Joe-Boy and Vinny are hawaiian. They are also both superstitious. They both put a cross or lightning bolt on their chest. Vinny and Joe-Boy are very different yet, still sort of similar. Vinny is a very weak person and does whatever his friends tell him to do. Joe-Boy is a tough bully to his friends and he's a daredevil. Even though Vinny and Joe-Boy has many differences, they are both best friends.Although Joe-Boy is controlling at the beginning of the story, Vinny finds that standing up to his friends brings him
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