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Analyzing The Story 'Sunday Morning With Rosa'
In the story “Sunday morning With Rosa”, Harriet whispers “I think she has much right to sit in that seat as the next person…” This sentence tells the reader how Harriet feels about Rosa Parks when she was forced to give up her seat in the bus. In other words, when a person who was white desired to sit down, she had to give her spot up. Instead of getting up from where she was, Rosa stayed there to prove that she was not going to let anyone boss her around because of the skin color. At the point in the story when Harriet states this, the sentence contributes to the theme of the story because it tells her point of being the same race as Rosa, and living in the south in Birmingham, Alabama, just as she did too. What she says adds to the theme

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