Waiting For Dan Summary

A protest is a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something. Both of the protests in, “A Letter Home” and in “Waiting For Dan” show similarities and differences. Two similarities between these two protests and the protesters are, they both wanted to get rid of an event that was taking place. Along with, in both protests people were affected. Two differences between the protesters consist of, they each took place in different time periods and they were protesting about different things. Also, one protest was peaceful and one was violent.
To start off, the first similarity between these two protesters are they both protested to get rid of an event that was occurring. In the letter, “A Letter Home”, the United States was involved in the Vietnam War. Protests were started to get rid of soldiers from guarding a college …show more content…
In the letter, “A Letter Home” the protest was much more violent. The protesters showed rampage and anger. For example in the text it states, “An officer began shouting on a bullhorn for everyone to disperse. Instead, students began shouting and throwing rocks. Then suddenly, the soldiers began shooting, and the whole scene became total panic and confusion.” This shows there was a lot of boisterous behavior and everyone was frantic because they were throwing things. People even died from the protest. On the contrary, in the story “Waiting For Dan”, the protesters were much less violent and used no violence. The story does not talk about any ruckus and just talks about how colored people participate in the Freedom Ride to prove a very significant point to everyone. In the text it states, “Giving in to the threat of violence would send the wrong message.” This shows that no one will use violence during this protest because they did not want to send the wrong message. The difference of these protesters is that one used violence and the protesters in the other story did