Answer: the purpose is to voice any opinion in a respectable manner about the claim
Explanation:
The fossils of certain animal and plant species have been found on different continents separated by thousands of miles of ocean. For example, many species seem to have fossils on both the East South American and West African coasts. The only logical explanation for this would be that the two coasts were, at one point, touching. The animals and plants died and left fossils, the continents moved over millions of years, and now we see those fossils separated by the oceans.
The play and the short story are similar because
(1) they both have Joe Magarac as the main characters
(2) they both have a plot where a hero saves the people
(3) the setting in two texts is in a steel mining and manufacturing facility