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A vignette from The House on Mango Street, "Those Who Don't," by Sandra Cisneros, the poem "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough," by Stephen Spender, and another poem "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks share many similarities and differences. These three pieces of literature talk about racism and rough children. "Those Who Don't" is about racism and how people think about others without getting to know them. "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough" explains how a good child wants to be like other children who are bad. "We Real Cool" talks about pool players who are bad. These pieces of literature compare and contrast between figurative language, point of view, and theme. The three pieces of literature are similar …show more content…

Soon, they do the same or try to be the same. They also think that the coarse children or the other race is terrible. "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough," "Those Who Don't" and "We Real Cool" are the same because they are safe with all the same kind of people around. "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough," "Those Who Don't" and "We Real Cool" because they are told in different perspectives. All these pieces show differences and similarities of point of view. The pieces also comparisons and contrasts so many other ideas. Figurative language in all these works of literature differ. For example, "We Real Cool" shows mainly alliteration. “We/ Sing sin. We/ Thin gin “(5 to 7) shows the alliteration with the word “we.” It also shows repetition with “we.” "Those Who Don't" shows barely any form of figurative language. “… our knees go shakity-shake…” (28) is an onomatopoeia. Mostly there isn’t much figurative language in "Those Who Don't." "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough" has a lot of similes. “Who threw words like stones…” (2) explains a simile meaning that the children said cruel words. These pieces are all alike because they mainly show or only have one kind of figurative language. "My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough" and "We Real Cool" repetitively uses figurative language. "Those Who Don't" is different than the others

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