Susan B Anthony Dares Essay

Both the life of Nelson Mandela and the story Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote! have powerful messages that are portrayed to the reader through the theme. They both share a common theme of perseverance. Nelson Mandela was put in jail and then beaten but still kept going. Susan B Anthony has had tomatoes thrown at her and she still kept going . While the theme of Nelson Mandela's Life and the passage have a similar theme, the theme is depicted differently by the amount of risk each character takes. The character Susan B anthony didn’t take as big of a risk as Nelson Mandela. The risk in Nelson Mandela’s life was bigger because there was the risk of death. In the passage Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote! The risk was smaller because the biggest possibility is that people would have rotten tomatoes thrown at the person.

In Mandela’s life he was put in jail for a long period of time. After that he did what he
have a similar theme,but the risk each character takes are drastic. The risk in the passage,Susan B Anthony Dares to vote!, is smaller than Nelson Mandela. In one way Susan B Anthony wasn’t beaten for what she had believed in. If someone was to follow her their greatest fear would be that they could of been put in jail. In her life the worst thing that happened to her was that rotten food was thrown at her. In Nelson Mandela’s life though people were horribly beaten, His greatest followers were sometimes killed. People in his lifetime were put in jail but not for less than one year but sometimes over 30. To follow Nelson Mandela their greatest fear would be that they could be beaten or killed. So much could have happened to somebody who had followed Nelson Mandela and Nelson Mandela himself. When most of it happened to Susan B. Anthony and not so much to her followers. Yes, some of her followers were put in jail with her,but even that wasn’t too