Compare And Contrast The Watsons Go To Birmingham

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Both of the stories The Watsons go to Birmingham are similar because they both show courage. In The Watsons go to Birmingham it showed courage because they march even though they can get in trouble. In Making Sarah Cry the story showed courage because she stuck up for someone who was getting bullied. Both of these stories have similarities because they both do what they think is right. Even though both of the stories showed similarities one had a bigger issue than the other.
In the article, The Watsons go to Birmingham shows courage because they take the courage to march. They march even though they went to jail. After they got out of jail they said that they would march which takes courage. This takes courage because they

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