What would it feel like to live where an earthquake has struck and where many people have died? After the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, there are many perspectives on the immediate aftermath. By analyzing Emma Burke’s (author of comprehending the calamity) and Laurence Yep’s (author of dragonwings where moonshadow is from) purpose of writing about the aftermath of the earthquake, we can assume Laurence Yep’s purpose is to entertain while Emma Burk purpose is to educate.

Emma Burke believes that everyone wanted to help and achieve the impossible. I have 3 examples of this from the passage. For 1 “I rushed to the window and saw my neighbor of the lower flat standing in the middle of the street in her nightclothes, clasping her little babe in her arms. I called …show more content…
Another example “The attendants were making frantic efforts to get the ambulance out.”. The final example would be “Willing hands were lifting and turning the great stones out of the way, and finally the frightened horses hauled it out over the amount of debris that in ordinary times would have been insurmountable.”. The author shows her point of view by stating her actions as well as the actions of others. She tells us about asking her neighbor if she needed help, people making many efforts, and even horses helping to clean up the mess. She also believes the destructions was immense an example of this “Chimneys on roofs, chimneys in the street, bricks and broken glass everywhere, stone steps gaping apart, wooden ones splintered, and buildings themselves at strange angles.”. Another example of this is “It’s stone facing had nearly all fallen away, the chimney was gone, and the tiles were