Tradegy and Love vs. Love and Battles

Compare and contrast on- Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys and The Fifth of March by Ann Rinaldi

Categories	Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys	Similarities	The Fifth of March by Ann Rinaldi
Location	Siberia and Alaska- The women were sent to Siberia to work and the men were sent to Alaska to work in a prison camp.	None	Boston and England- Boston was were the whole book took place and where the Boston Massacre was and England was where the soldiers came and left.
Events	In the events that occur, people from Russia are taken and families were separated. Other events were having many people die of starvation, thirst and giving birth. Another event was working in the cold weather were more people died and then finally having families reunited.	There is violence, suffering and fighting throughout both books to get back what is rightfully theirs.	In the event that occurs, 4-5 people were killed in the Boston Massacre and the British soldiers had a trial that took place for a week to determined their fate from what some of the soldiers did to the citizens of Boston.
What they are fighting for	In this book, the people of Russia are fighting for their families and trying to save their husbands and sons from the prison camp and having them die in the prison camp.	They are both fighting for independence, families, love and the protection of their city or country, trying not to have anybody die, get hurt or be sentenced to a terrible fate.	In this book, the people of Boston are trying to fight for each other from the British taking over Boston. They are also trying to gain back what is rightfully theirs and trying to send the British soldiers back to England to stop the madness in Boston.
Characters	Many people that Lina knows die from starvation, beating, thirst, etc. She loses some people that she doesn’t even know but still tries to save from dying.	Try to do much out of the ordinary like doing something crazy to save their country or city. They both never give up and do whatever is possible.	Rachel is only trying to save herself, a man named Matthew from persecution, Chris who she likes too, her friend Jane  and the Adams family. Throughout the book, only one person dies and its Chris but she wasn’t able to help him.
Main Idea	The main idea of this book is to get families back together and get home safely and to eliminate the soldiers that planned the event.	The two women, Rachel and Lina are both trying to fight for family, friends and love independence.	The main idea of this book is to save the city of Boston from the mob of people that created the Boston Massacre and to get things back to normal. Rachel is trying to set things straight and also save the man that she loves.