Change Through Similarity As Alphonse Karr once said, “The more the change the more it is the same thing” (Peter, 99). Often people assume that with time comes change, and with change comes improvement. However, simply by looking at two books from two entirely different time periods and from two entirely different nations, one can see that similar customs and opinions are held in each. The Gossamer Years, a book from Japan’s middle Heian period, …showed first 75 words of 1417 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1417 total…and opinions of the characters in each, examples are shown in the relationships between the men and women and the role the child played in their lives. As mentioned before, Alphonse Karr once said, “The more the change the more it is the same thing” (Peter, 99). Through plenty of change, and with time on their side, these societies have done little but stay the same, even if the two were never directly introduced. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**