Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of the story. In what way are the presentations of the Civil War in "
A Horseman and the Sky" and The Death of Reynolds different? The story favors the Union side, while the drawing favors the Confederate side. The story is more concerned with violent death than the drawing is.
The story relates the war to a family's private history, while the drawing does not. The story glorifies war, while the drawing condemns war.
The story relates the war to a family's private history, while the drawing does not.
Explanation:
Both stories deal with anti-war sentiments, and both are anti-war works of art, but in the case of the story the most important thing is the fact that it is dealing with different problems and the private life of a family, and how war has affected a private family, while the drawing does not deal with this kind of things.
Angelou had thought her grandmother was mistaken in identifying her mother on the train because she had never seen her mother dressed nice and look pretty.
