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Watsons Go To Birmingham Poem Essay

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_Literary Essay In the play “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” and the poem, “Making Sarah Cry” they both have similarities and differences. In both text and poem they share the theme of courage. For instance in “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” they go to a “white only” restaurant and could have got arrested. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah stands up for someone who made fun of her. Although the theme is the same the characters act very different. In “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” the kids are upset society.

In the play “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” the theme is courage because the Watson kids march illegally. The reason they did that is because, Alabama had specific rules about what race could do what, and the Watsons along …show more content…

In “Making Sarah Cry” it takes a lot of courage to go to school again after the boy got hit by a car. Another thing that takes a lot of courage is to bully the his mom after your just told never do it again! But now the boy is getting made fun of. So Sarah is sticking up for him even though she has been bullied by him. One thing that takes a lot of courage is being different, instead of bullying of Sarah he will teach her how to play, and help her get faster. So all his friends did the same, so they all got …show more content…

Although they are presented differently they are still the same. One way they are different is that the Watsons are showing courage by defending their rights. That is shown when the kids march illegally. In making Sarah cry they show courage in the thirteenth stanza and the sixteenth stanza, in the thirteenth they explain that he got hit by a car ,and in the sixteenth they explain that he is going back to school. In “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” it takes a lot more courage then Sarah and the boy. That is because the Watsons break the law more than once. The level of risk is much higher in “The Watsons Go To Birmingham” because if they were not new in Alabama the consequence would be much

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