Granddaddy Cain and Pa Sexton both have similar physic, strong will, and persistence in helping their family members out of sticky situation, though they are both from separate stories and authors.

Granddaddy Cain is a black man with thick African-American culture dialect. He’s large, tall, muscular, and holds himself well. The story takes place during the depression in a Georgia neighborhood. As Granddaddy Cain was heading back home after hunting for falcon out in the fields, he was greeted with an aggravated Mrs. Cain and two foolish Cameramen trying their best to sneak around him as if he had an extra chromosome. He avoided all contact with them at first; focusing on the Misses and the dead falcon he had hanging over his shoulder. This already shows that he is both humble, and as a third cousin Cathy said, “…he’s so tall and quiet like a king”. When Mrs. Cain told him to “Get them persons out of my flower bed, Mister Cain”, he approached them subtly with a polite and deep “good day, gentlemen”. He then extended his arm, awaiting the heavy machinery. Normally a camera the size of the ones they used back in the day would be hard to handle with a single arm, but Granddaddy Cain had hands that were “…all still and gentle to be not at all a hand, but a person in itself”. With the flick of a wrist the camera was nothing more than bludgeoned cluster of wires and metal.

Pa sexton is as well a tall and muscular man, though a white farmer. He hailed from Georgia as well and had a very thick southern dialect. As a farmer back in the 1930’s, he was keener on farm work, with leathery tan weather beaten skin and a strong body, than he was with keeping up with city folk and the modern way of life. His problems arose when his son, Dave Sexton came home two hours late with stories of breaking a cherry tree and having to pay it off, though the other boys who aided in the trees ‘accidental vandalism’ paid their dollar and weren’t forced to stay and work for it, “his eyes danced like fire”. Pa saw this as a discrimination against the poor and felt like he needed to put a stop to it. Growing up in a very different time, his only plausible solution was to bring his revolver to Dave’s class and shoot his teacher, Professor Herbert to prove his point that “a bullet goes through a rich man the same as it does a poor man”.

Both characters found them selves in very different situations, but went out of their way to stop what they saw as the opposing force from putting its foot down on their family. Cain crushed a camera to rid of two men filming for the anti-food stamp act because they were pestering his wife and family, while Pa sought to dismantle what he saw is discrimination towards the economic class of his family, specifically aimed at his son. Not to mention they both have southern dialects to some extent, are hardworking in order to provide for them and theirs, and have a toned physic from working. Even though both characters were from different stories that were written by different authors, they were quite alike.