Theme Of We Due Soon By Anna Brooks

Brooks expresses her feelings quite vividly throughout this poem. She tells the theme by expressing how teens are out doing things that they believe earns them cool points when in all actuality, nothing good comes out of the situations they put themselves in. She expresses this pretty much thorough the entire poem. Brooks especially portrays the theme through line 7 and 8 by stating , " We due soon." Showing us teens really don't understand the serious consequences that come along with doing as we please. Also, you can tell Brooks is writing about teens through lines 1 and 2, by stating, " We real cool. We left school." This specific quote shows that in some way these are teens or at least able to know that they are doing things that are way
before their time. Although the them is pretty evident, the symbolic meaning is a little deeper. Brooks shows through the first line, " We real cool.", that she does not actually think the following things are cool. She shows through symbolism that even though teens or whoever else think doing things such as having sex(" We sin sin" or drinking("We thin gin") are things that do not earn you cool points but they earn you consequences that most people are not aware of such as dying early (" we die soon." ). Brooks stresses this whole poem to show that teens and everyone should make more conscious decisions and think before doing ignorant things.