We know Harriet Tubman as the woman who got freedom and went back to bring other people to freedom. Also you can probably guess that she didn’t like slavery. Thing that you did not know is where she lived and probably don’t even no how old she was when she did it. You probably don’t even no when this came to her mind. Well let me tell you it happened when she was 15 years old in Bucktown, Maryland this was stated in “The Woman Called Moses.” Now there’s two text that talks about Harriet Tubman. That is “The Woman Called Moses” by: Walter Oleksy and Meg Mims, then in “Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman” by: Ann Malaspina. These two authors wrote these passages to inform us about Harriet Tubman and what she did. These two passages are similar but are …show more content…
The author’s purpose in writing this was to inform readers about Harriet Tubman’s childhood, which is stated in the first two paragraphs. Then the author also wanted to tell you why she did what she did. Also about what life was like back at that time in her town . Now there’s a difference in the purpose of the next passage.

Next, in “Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman” By: Ann Malaspina, this author has a different purpose. They want to inform them about Harriet’s beliefs. They also wanted to tell the readers about what was going on in the world. This author’s purpose was to describe the civil war and what had happened. So, the author’s purpose was to tell readers about what happened in the world and what happened with Harriet Tubman.

Then, there is things is that are the same in both passages. They both believe that Harriet Tubman is an hero. They both think what she did was very brave because most people in those days would not get to freedom then go back and help other people. They both wanted to inform the readers about different things. So, this is the similarities between the two