In the two passages “Red Cranes” and “The Firefly Hunt” the two main characters in the passages, have certain similarities, but authors develop their characters in very different ways. In the short story “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy, the daughter Mie is fascinated with red cranes as they are rare and almost never seen in japan. In “The Firefly Hunt” the main character has never seen fireflies in person only in puppet shows.
However, she has big dreams as to what her future will hold. The narrator explains, “She imagined herself at the peak and, like a red crane, flying into the sky” (Choy 6 Par 14). As she had these big dreams of flying high like a red crane, her mother used to be the same way. “Well, when I was your age, I had many dreams,