Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote Essay

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In the stories Don’t Give Up The Fight and Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote have a common theme and that is Courage because they both have been brave enough to stand up for what is right. In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote she had courage to stand up infront of many of people and wanted to state that woman can do anything that men can do. In Don’t Give Up The Fight Ava had courage to stand up in front the boys in her track team to show them that a girl is as powerful and talented as a boy can be. Even though the two stories both show courage, the characters both handle the problem a different way. In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote spoke in front of the judge when she went to jail. Ava did not tell anyone about her problem at school and only told …show more content…
Susan is a courageous person because she had the courage to stand for what she thought was right. Even though she knew that woman could not vote she wanted to be registered to vote. She was not alone 15 other women were with her thinking that the rule was unfair. In the beginning of the story, it said, “In November 1872, she and 15 other women in Rochester, New York, had demanded to be registered and had voted in the national election.”This is important because she stood up and told them how she felt and how she thought that she wanted to vote no matter what. Later on in the story, she showed courage because when the judge gave her an opportunity to say why she should not get punished she said what she wanted to. The judge then told her to be quiet and she spoke her thoughts. In the story it shows that she was courageous when she said, “Judge hunt became furious. The court orders the prisoner do sit down.” Also in the passage it said, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women that resistance to tyranny is obedience to god.” she was courageous enough to say that she does not agree with what the court was doing and how she told them what she wanted to

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