Blog Week 6A

Compare and contrast is the way we make sense of our everyday world. When comparing and contrasting, we have to be careful that the things that we are comparing and contrasting make sense; we cannot compare and contrast a tree with a person.  We have to have bases for comparison. We use compare when we find all of the similarities between two things; we also find all of the differences using contrast. And then when we are done comparing and contrasting, we make a choice/decision. We are more prone to choose the one that fits us better, or the one that that we find more idealistic. An example of this would be comparing and contrasting a vehicle. If we have a big family, then obviously, we are not going to buy a sports car. So we compare and contrast vehicles and then make a choice of which one is the best one for our situation.

When we compare and contrast we can also use analogies. Analogies are when we use information that we have on a particular subject and use it on another subject.  That is, when we know information about one subject and we use that information to help describe another subject. Analogies also refer to the relationship between the source, the thing that we know about, and the target (another subject). An example of an analogy would be if a teacher would tell their class to be as “Quiet as a mouse.”  We are simply implying that the mouse is quiet; therefore we must be quiet like that too. Comparing and contrasting make everything more interesting. I believe that by comparing and contrasting it adds life to what did not have life before.