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They are similar because they both were stranded on an icy mountain and had no way to go back home. It is presented in a differently fictionalized way because they thought they were going to find a mythical river leading to somewhere secret but it turned out to be a lie and they didn’t find the river. The effect that the different presentation had on the reader was that the reader could’ve thought this was a true story but it actually wasn’t.
Explanation:
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To hide her "mortification" under it
Obama was the former president of the United States Of America (USA)
