One of the most terrible tornados that has ever occurred was in Joplin, Missouri. Many deaths and injuries happened during this time but the story is told in many similar and different ways. The articles "The Evil Swirling Darkness" and "A Storm Chaser's First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado" are an excellent example of this story. One similarity the two articles have in common is that both stories talk about how some people go storm chasing for the small and pretty tornados and some people go for the thrill and for seeing bad tornados. But yet more people fit into the category of going to try to figuring out the mysteries of tornado's. The Scope article says, "Some storm chasers are mainly after the thrill, racing after violent weather in hopes of capturing it …show more content…
Another similarity between the articles is that both of them talk about how the people in the community went out to go help people who were trapped and dying. The articles talk about how neighbors were helping each other get out of piles of rubble and helping them into their cars to go to a hospital. The Scope article says, "Neighbors helped neighbors, tearing through piles of wreckage with their bare hands to reach those who were trapped. Teenage boys turned their trucks into ambulances." This tells me what was happening after the tornado. The interview also has many examples of this when Jeff Piotrowski illustrates how he was pulling tons of people out of fallen houses. But even though the authors are talking about the same tornado, there are many differences in the