Have you ever heard the term men and women can’t be friends? I am sure you have. This argument has bothered me for years now. Many people think that it is possible, when in reality it is not. I believe men and women cannot be friends without anything happening between them. There is no such thing...

Reading the short stories “The Widow and the Parrot” and “The Apple Tree”, I have discovered some compare and contrast between these stories. They both deal with poverty, and each character in the stories cherishes everything they have. Also another thing they have in common is t...