How We Avenged The Rhymes Analysis

The last two paragraphs of “How We Avenged the Blumes” demonstrates the jewish boys who expressed empathy when they first witnessed the anti-semite get crushed. When the Anti-semite collapses below their feet, “confusion came over [them] all” and “none of [them] knew when to run.” Whenever the boys came across an anti semite, their first intentions would be to run. On the other hand, now that they encountered victory instead of defeat, they were confused and lost. As the narrator was watching Ace beat up the anti-semite, he “knew [he’d] always feel that to be broken was better than to break.” He understood watching the bully be mistreated was worse than to be the one getting bullied. Essentially, the boys felt unfortunate to the “crushed boy,”