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Theme Of We Due Soon By Anna Brooks
Brooks expresses her feelings quite vividly throughout this poem. She tells the theme by expressing how teens are out doing things that they believe earns them cool points when in all actuality, nothing good comes out of the situations they put themselves in. She expresses this pretty much thorough the entire poem. Brooks especially portrays the theme through line 7 and 8 by stating , " We due soon." Showing us teens really don't understand the serious consequences that come along with doing as we please. Also, you can tell Brooks is writing about teens through lines 1 and 2, by stating, " We real cool. We left school." This specific quote shows that in some way these are teens or at least able to know that they are doing things that are way

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