Comparison Of Summertime Sharing And The Scourge

In the poem Summertime Sharing by Nikki Grimes and an excerpt from The Scourge by Jennifer A Nielsen both authors developed the common theme of friends are always there when you need them. The poem Summertime Sharing develops the theme through actions. In the excerpt from The Scourge the theme is developed through symbolism. To start, in the poem Summertime Sharing the author develops the theme through actions of a character. The main character Danitra “breaks the Popsicle in two and gives [her] half.The purple ice trickles down her chin. I start to laugh”(stanza 3). This shows that friends are always there when you need them. Danitra Was upset about something when her friend comes by and sees her hunched on the stoop and[pouting]”