Both Making Sarah Cry and Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote share the theme of Courage. In Making Sarah Cry, when the boy is being bullied by his former friends because of a scar on his face, Sarah steps up to help him. Even though she knew that they might start bullying her again. In Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote, Susan decides to go and vote even though in her time period, women aren’t allowed to vote. When Susan goes to court, she makes a statement that all women should be allowed to vote because they are the same as men. While both of these stories share a common theme of courage, the social implication of the stories is quite different. In Making Sarah Cry, Sarah only sticks up for herself and the boy. In Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote, she sticks up for all women around the United States, protesting that they should have equal rights as men. In the beginning, the boy bullies Sarah for being …show more content…
In the beginning Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, the story shows that she was brave, even though it was against the law, she still went and voted because she is a citizen of America and she thought she should have the right to vote. For example, “On November 1872, she and 15 other women in Rochester, New York, had demanded to be registered and had voted in the national election. Soon after, all 16 women were arrested”. In the middle of the story when she was in court, instead of saying nothing or saying sorry, she stood up for herself and told the male judge that she would never pay if they gave her a fine. "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women... that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God”. That judge has the power to throw her in jail, and she had the courage to tell him that she would never pay money if he gave her a fine and she would never go to jail. That takes a lot of