Dark Energy, written by Robinson Wells, and Schooled, write by Gordon Korman have many similarities and differences over the course of the book. In Dark Energy, we see the story of a girl named Ali who has to accept her new way of life and living with alien refugees from a distant planet, and in Schooled we follow the story of a boy named Cap who has to learn a new way of life after his grandma gets injured and have to leave their farm. While it may not seem like there are many similarities in between the two books, that's only for plot. There are many similarities, and differences, when it comes to setting, conflict and theme. Across the book Schooled, there are many changes in the setting that affect the main character in different ways. …show more content…
Obviously there are many conflicts that are different in the texts, one of which are man vs. man. In the book, Schooled there are a lot of conflicts, however most of them are small and not very relevant, but even though some aren't very important, that doesn't mean there are no important ones. Man vs. man is present throughout the entire book and is most notable with Cap and the main schools bully, Zach. They don't get along and Cap kills Zach with kindness however, Zach is more forceful physically because he can't seem to humiliate Cap. As you can tell this is all a man vs. man conflict. And in Dark Energy we see that a common conflict that is present throughout the text is, man vs. society. We see that when Ali arrives at her new school, she is treated kindly and is respected but she is always bombarded with questions about her Dad, who works for NASA, and other questions and everyone in the text looks at her differently in that way. So a conflict that is present in Dark Energy is man vs. society and in Schooled a conflict is man vs man. So they are completely different conflicts because one of them deals with multiple people to keep up with while the other deals with just one. So there is a big difference in terms of people. While there are multiple minor conflicts that are present throughout the text, the main conflicts in both texts is man vs. the unknown. In Schooled we see …show more content…
For example a minor theme in Schooled is, don't judge someone by the part of your life you walked in on. We see many examples of this theme from the text. For example, when Cap came in on the first day of school, every one gave him weird looks and people said, “I could even pick on a guy like that.” This all shows that he was a target and in the eyes of everyone else, a loser that no one wanted.” With all of this being said, they treated Cap like he was nothing, even though he was going through a hard time of his life because he had to leave his farm. In Dark Energy a theme that is present is, don't make assumptions to quickly. We first see this at the beginning of the book when the aliens first come out of the UFO. Everyone thinks they are going to be bad and uses sort of force even though they turn out not to be, but completely innocent. We also see an example of this happening when everyone is treating the aliens bad just because there aliens, and in the end they turn out to be humans, meaning everything that has been said that was mean or hurtful to the aliens wasn't true. This shows that the humans made an assumption that showed that they were not as good as us humans, when it really turns out that they were as good as us all along, because they were us. While these themes are different, they still have some similarities. Both of these are similar in the way that they both involve someone