Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote Poem Analysis

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The theme courage is shown in both of the stories “Making Sarah cry” and “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote”. Both of the characters in these stories show courage. In the informational text “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” she is trying to help all the women get the right to vote even though she could have been arrested at any point in time. In the poem “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah helped the narrator when she sees him starting to cry so she goes up to them and stands up to them even though she knew that they would start to make fun of her, but she won’t let them upset her even though they did. While these two stories share a common theme, the mood is entirely different. In the novel “Making Sarah cry” is sad. While in “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” the mood is uplifting

Even though the stories share a common theme they have completely different moods. In “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” the mood is uplifting because she is standing up for women to fight for the right to vote and to have equal rights. In “Making Sarah Cry” the mood is sad because Sarah I always being made fun of and crying and nobody is
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Then the opposing team says “Isn’t women voting illegal, so she should be arrested” But then the judge lets her go when the opposing team gets taken out of the court and she says “ I won’t ever pay another dollar to you guys again” And Susan B. Anthony is free, but she continues to fight for the right to vote. A couple of years later she gets married and has small children, but this doesn’t stop her and she traveled 13,000 miles and gave 171 lectures around the globe inspiring people to fight for the right to vote. A couple of years later she has a distance and she is highly ill and can’t get out of bed. She passes away a couple of weeks later and in a couple of years, Congress signs documents to change the constitution so that women have the right to vote, except for

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