eyewitness"narrated by Jack London, uses a broad scope to show how the whole city of San 

Francisco was affected by the earthquake. "Letter from New Orleans: leaving desire" has a 

narrow scope to get up close and personal which each and every character to show how they 

were separately affected from Hurricane Katrina. The authors uses different scopes to show the 

tragedy of the disasters through broad and narrow scopes. The broad scope tells of the whole 

disaster and the entire city which shows how everyone was affected. The broad scope covers 

how every one is affected, no ones left out of this disaster. In addition It shows how everyone is 

equal in the end which means whether your worth 600,000 dollars or 30,000 no matter what 

everyone's affected equally. This author uses narrow scope to show how a few people in 

particular was affected. It tells how the Green family didn't want to leave their house and how 

Lionel Petrie had to leave his house and his dog. Also how a women was risking her life to get 

others to safety. Both authors use either broad or narrow scopes to show how the disaster 

affected people's lives. Whether it was the whole city or person for person. They were all 

affected one way or another.

characters in different ways. To start off with, In the story, "Story of an Eyewitness" by Jack 

London, the broad scope events affect the reader by showing the destruction of the whole city, 

but less emotion of the characters in the story. London included a character worth $600,000 

"Yesterday morning," he said, "I was worth six - hundred thousand dollars." Also another 

character was worth $30,000. Those two men went from having everything to losing it all to the 

conflagration."Today is my birthday. Last night I was worth thirty - thousand dollars. I had bought 

some delicate fish and things for my birthday dinner. All I have now are these crutches."In 

addition, in the story, "Letter from New Orleans" by Jon Lee Anderson, the narrow scope event 

only focused on the people of the ninth ward in New Orleans and put us into the victims of the 

hurricane's wrath's shoes. When Lionel Petrie had to leave his house and dog behind he felt 

upset over his loss. "Petrie gripped the railing of the porch leaned over again, in a kind of slow, 

sustained forward lurch, his head down."When Alladio had to take Lionel, she told him that pets 

were not allowed to be rescued, she was heartbroken to see a friendship bond break. "Oh God," 

Alladio said under her breath, "I hate this." In Conclusion, with London using a broad scope 

approach and Anderson using a narrow scope approach, both stories create a sad or upsetting 

emotion.

"Its business section is wiped out. Its social and residential section is wiped out. 

The factories and warehouses, the great stores and newspaper buildings, the 

hotels and the palaces of the nabobs are all gone. Remains only the fringe of dwelling houses on the outskirts of what was once San Francisco." This evidence shows the reader that is all the details.