Both stories The Finish of Patsy Barnes by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury shared a similar theme although their differences. The two stories were about never giving up on hope and be brave and it will overcome all the odds. The Finish of Patsy Barnes is a story about a boy named Patsy who quits school to get a job at a track, who ends up on fair grounds listening to men talk. He was hoping he might get a job there to warm up the horses. Patsy then gets the chance to ride black boy (a horse in the fair). His mother is sick throughout the story too, and so if he won in the spring race, he would gain money that they never had to take Eliza (his mother) to the doctor. In the end, Patsy
Both stories The Finish of Patsy Barnes by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury shared a similar theme although their differences. The two stories were about never giving up on hope and be brave and it will overcome all the odds. The Finish of Patsy Barnes is a story about a boy named Patsy who quits school to get a job at a track, who ends up on fair grounds listening to men talk. He was hoping he might get a job there to warm up the horses. Patsy then gets the chance to ride black boy (a horse in the fair). His mother is sick throughout the story too, and so if he won in the spring race, he would gain money that they never had to take Eliza (his mother) to the doctor. In the end, Patsy