Comparings:

I think you can compare Twelve Angry Men and I Never Promised You A Rosegarden with each other because of the trouble between parents and their children. Not very likely but juror number three had trouble with his kid and so did Esther and Jacob Blau. It’s good that books with different plots describe the problems that can develop between parents and their kids. In a way you can also compare them because of the teamwork aspect in it. Teamwork of Debby and Dr. Fried and teamwork of the jurors together. So you can see how important that aspect is.

You also can compare I Never Promised you A Rosegarden with The Tenth Man. This because of the handling of the ups and downs in life. With this I mean the ups and mostly downs of Louis Chavel and those of Deborah Blau. They both had a difficult time, in a different way maybe, but the point still holds.

I think it’s important to compare The Tenth Man with A Christmas Carol. Louis Chavel and Thérèse Mangeot are kind of similar to Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol. Money has an important role here. Scrooge is a rich man and isn’t very happy at the beginning, he hasn’t got anyone, and he learns that money doesn’t make you happy. Thérèse doesn’t have her brother anymore, she misses him a lot, and she strongly feels that money doesn’t make her happy, because it won’t bring her brother back. In that way you can also compare Silas Marner with Louis Chavel. He’s happier too after he’s got someone instead of the money he used to own.
Louis Chavel is a rich man too, like Scrooge, and in that way you can compare him with Scrooge.

You can compare Lennie Small from Of Mice And Men with Deborah from I Never Promised You A Rosegarden a bit. They both live in their own little world, only Lennie thinks a bit more simple than Debby. You can compare those two and Ben from The Fifth Child with each other because they all are different from other people. Lennie has a simple mind, Debby has created a Yr and with Ben you can’t tell what’s going on in his head.