The theme of both the poem “Making Sarah Cry” and the memoir “I Escaped a Violent Gang” is being different. “Making Sarah Cry” shows being different because Sarah is getting bullied because she looks different. “I Escaped a Violent Gang” shows being different as well because Ana wanted to stand out from the rest of her family. This shows that both characters in the stories are different. The two stories are different because the characters take different risks. In contrast, “I Escaped a Violent Gang” Ana gets to choose how she lives and she chooses to be different and in “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah doesn’t get to choose how she lives because she was born different.
In the poem, “Making Sarah Cry” the theme would be being different because Sarah is different. Sarah gets bullied because she is different. This shows she is different because the poem restates it in the texts like in this part of the poem, “Sarah was unlike the rest; She was slow and not as smart, And it would seem to all these friends She was born without a heart.....The funny faces that she made And the way she'd stomp her feet Whenever they mocked the way she walked Or the stutter when she'd speak”, this is being different because everyone is not like her and they make fun of her for their “game”. …show more content…
I can prove this because in the texts it says, “I began to see things other than gang life---that I could have a future, that I could graduate. I started thinking about getting out of the gang.” This shows she actually wants to be a success and not just be someone that gets beat up all the time and sees people killing innocent people. In the end, she gets to get a degree in college and turns out to be a Secretary of
In the poem, “Making Sarah Cry” the theme would be being different because Sarah is different. Sarah gets bullied because she is different. This shows she is different because the poem restates it in the texts like in this part of the poem, “Sarah was unlike the rest; She was slow and not as smart, And it would seem to all these friends She was born without a heart.....The funny faces that she made And the way she'd stomp her feet Whenever they mocked the way she walked Or the stutter when she'd speak”, this is being different because everyone is not like her and they make fun of her for their “game”. …show more content…
I can prove this because in the texts it says, “I began to see things other than gang life---that I could have a future, that I could graduate. I started thinking about getting out of the gang.” This shows she actually wants to be a success and not just be someone that gets beat up all the time and sees people killing innocent people. In the end, she gets to get a degree in college and turns out to be a Secretary of