I Escaped A Violent Gang Analysis

The texts “I Escaped A Violent Gang” and “Making Sarah Cry” have similar themes of courage. Each text shows the theme differently throughout the text. In “I escaped A Violent Gang” the author had to go through different events needing courage. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah shows courage while standing up to her bullies. While both of these texts share a common theme, the mood of the texts is completely different. The memoir “I Escaped A Violent Gang” has a mood of sadness and is a bit scary because the author and her family could be killed at any moment. In the poem “Making Sarah Cry” the mood is a bit uplifting as she stands up to her bullies.

In the memoir, “I Escaped A Violent Gang,” the author shows us that there is a theme of courage throughout the piece. At the beginning of “I Escaped A Violent Gang,” it tells the time when the author is court testifying as an eyewitness to something that happened between two gangs. In the text, it says, “I was the only eyewitness, so what I said would determine which one went to jail.” Later in the memoir, a novel helps the author realize that she doesn’t want to be in the gang that she was raised in. At the end …show more content…
In the beginning, Sarah kept going outside to recess and got bullied every day. The author goes back to school, with scars and bruises on his face and arms.This shows courage because he could be bullied by his friends for looking different. In the end, Sarah has stood up for her bully, “He turned to see poor Sarah, Determination on her face, Sticking up for one of her own tormentors.” This shows courage because Sarah stood up to the bullies, she also could have been bullied more in the process of helping another person. I think “Making Sarah Cry” had the theme of courage because Sarah and the author had to face the bullies that were the author’s best friends. Sarah and the author had face the bullies because they were