What both stories characters have in common is risking lives or punishment for the one's they cared for. In “The highwayman” the landlord’s daughter had a choice to be with a robber or obey her father’s orders by not seeing him again. She chose the highwayman and ended up dying for him. While in “The Typhoid Fever” the small boy risks punishment by talking to Patricia because he really liked her and enjoyed the conversations although they were not allowed to talk to each other. It was good that Frankie heard the end of the story because he realizes the harshness in life and that sometimes bad things happen to good people for no reason.
That's so true.
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