“Keep reaching out because you may help pull someone out of darkness and guide them into the light” Caroline Naoroji. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote “We Real Cool” about seven young boys who are hanging out in a pool hall named “Golden Shovel”. The speaker is trying to reach out and help the young boys and tell them it’s wrong to be there. Brooks’ used first person plural “We” to emphasis what is going on the players’ head. The speaker started the poem saying “We real cool/ We left school” (line 1 & 2) meaning the boys/speaker are young and left the school because they are “cool”. Brooks’ wrote this in 1960, when African American had only 50 percentages the chance of going to school and getting the right education. Brooks’ maybe trying to reach out
