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Don T Give Up The Fight Analysis

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The common theme for Don't give up and Making Sarah cry is helping others. In Making Sarah cry Sarah protects the narrator when he gets bullied. While in Don’t Give Up The Fight the narrator tells her friend about her being bullied and the friend tells the principle and the bullies get in trouble. Even though they both share a common theme they are also completely different stories. In Making Sarah Cry the characters actions made him grow up because he was hit by a car and everybody bullied him. Then the bully eventually grows up and then knows not to bully anymore. In Don’t give up the fight the characters actions gets her to tell her friend about getting bullied. The friend then tells the principle and the bullies get in huge trouble.

Helping others is a good them for Making Sarah Cry because. The narrator gets bullied and then Sarah comes in a tells the bullies to stop and she does not expect anything in return. On the second to last page, it says that Sarah stood up for the narrator even …show more content…

In Making Sarah Cry for example. The narrator bullies a girl named Sarah who cries every day at recess. But then the narrator gets hit by a car and then he goes to school and he gets bullied because of his scar. Then Sarah steps in a support her bully by telling the other bullies to stop. While in Don't give up the fight the narrator gets bullied and does not do anything about it. Closer to the end of the story Ava [ or the narrator] tells her friend and then they both tell the principal and then the coach and kid get in trouble. I believe the story Don't give up the fight shows a bit more of helping others than Making Sarah Cry because. I believe this because the narrator in Don't give up the fight does nothing for a long time about getting bullied. But after she broke her arm she then told her friend and her friend preserved her to go and tell the

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