Compare contrast essay

Written Novels and Soup operas

Outline

I. Introduction

II. - Soup operas

A.-Schedule and place

B. - Audience

C. - Success

III. - Written Novels

A.-Schedule and place

B. - Audience

C. - Success

IV. - Conclusion

All people enjoy stories. Stories have existed since the man started to talk. There are big classifications for stories like romantic stories, horror stories, science-fiction stories, etc. also, there are different ways to tell a story, for example from a grand father to his grand son (orally), from a movie (visually), and form a newspaper or magazine. Novels are one of the most famous stories and there are two ways in which the people can enjoy them; from books or TV. There are some differences between the novels (book’s stories) and soup operas (TV’s stories), the most important are schedule and place, audience, and success.

Soup operas were made for telling stories but they limit your imagination. Soup operas are very strict because they are transmitted by the TV and programmed for certain time. The schedule of soup operas is usually from Monday to Friday and they last one hour, so if you want to have fun watching a soup opera you need to be conscious that you have to sit down in your couch and spend one hour in front of your TV during from the whole week and for months. Some people could think that soup operas are for people of all ages because they are transmitted during the evening but that is not the reality because most of the content’s soup operas have explicit images that children should watch; for this reason are soup operas that are specially made for children. That is true that the soup operas are very popular in our culture because a lot of people prefer spend the whole day in front of the TV, and also because the stories are dramatic stories and the people could feel identify with some of the characters.

Written novels are the best way to tell stories for excellence. Written novels are very flexible because they do not have schedule, you decide when you want to read it and in which place you want to do it, so you could be in the bus waiting to arrive to your destiny while you have fun just carrying a book, and you can read a written novels during a week. Written novels can be read for people from all ages because they are a lot of genders and for all moods and likes for example romantic, drama, horror or science fiction. Written novels were very popular some years ago but the technology and the invention of the radio and the television displaced them to the obscurity.

Nowadays soup operas are the principal mains and the most popular way to tell a story. One of the most major reasons is that people prefer to sit down and see the life pass in front of the TV. Sometimes we do not realize that the written novels are better for us because they let our imagination flies. Some soup operas or other kind of stories like movies were inspired in written novels. With written novels you can decide the type of story you want to read and get fun and also the time and place where you will do it.