Comparing Waiting For Dan And A Letter Home

Protests can highly differ in context of what they believe in and how the protesters determine to get their point across, and this can depend on how effective their campaign is. In the texts, “Waiting for Dan,” and “A Letter Home,” the protesters share many similarities as well as differences. In the text, “Waiting for Dan,” a wife has a husband that is one of the “freedom riders” who go on a bus across America and whites act like how blacks are treated (e.g. sit in the back of the bus; go into blacks only places), and blacks act that whites are treated (e.g. sit in the front of the bus; go into whites only places). This caused the wife and eventually kids to worry about the husband due to many attacks on the freedom riders. The husband was in jail at the time of writing and the wife desperately hopes and awaits his arrival back home. …show more content…
Her schoolmates are rioting and causing mass havoc among the community. This then caused National Guards to show up at the school which only created more worry among the students. 4 peers ended up dying and the writer, Kara, wonders why the students and the police couldn’t be peaceful. Overall, these two stories protesters are similar by both expressing what they believe in and by both receiving harsh and violent counter attacks in response to their protests. The protesters also differ by the protesters from “Waiting for Dan” peacefully protesting and protesting to fix the issue of race in America while the protesters from “A Letter Home” using violence and protesting due to outrage over U.S. soldiers invading