Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote Essay

In the article “Susan B. Anthony dares to vote” and the play “The Watsons go to birmingham” the theme of both texts is perseverance. They show it in many different ways though like in the article she goes against the law to get her rights for being a woman and in the play Watson's try to fight for blacks rights when they go to back to Alabama. A difference they have is the characters actions in “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote” white people want to send her to jail, but in “The Watson’s go to Birmingham” white people bomb black churches and other black places. So as one can see there is a difference in the characters actions.

In the article “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote”it shows perseverance when it says “Susan B. Anthony “the leader of
Another way this play is showing perseverance is when Byron says “I’ll march with you” When Byron is saying this he wants to fight for rights as well and will not stop until black have equal rights. Since this is the time period where black people were treated unfairly.

The contrast of these passages is the action of the characters. Since in the article “Susan B. Anthony dares to vote” she gets set to trial and almost to prison pretty much because of her sex when she tried to vote. In the play “The Watson’s go to Birmingham” black churches are getting bombed and whites are doing it strictly because of their race. This shows these texts resemble perseverance in different ways.

As one can see the theme of these passages is perseverance. A way the texts show it differently is in the article Susan gets arrested for voting. In the play black churches are getting bombed. The article showed this theme more because Susan is fighting for all woman’s rights Colored and white people, while the other they were fighting for just black people’s rights, but it isn’t showed