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12 O Clock Boys Poem

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“12 O’clock Boys” was released in 2014 by Lofty Nathan and “We Real Cool” was written in 1960 by Gwendolyn Brooks. After reviewing each of the works carefully, I noticed that they contained interesting similarities as well as major differences. "12 O’clock Boys" plays like two separate films that are joined. One of them focuses on a group of young African-American men (most appear to be in their late teens, 20s and 30s) who ride their motor bikes around the inner-city Baltimore. They are depicted as rebellious on their roaring motorbikes while ignoring the traffic laws putting the citizen’s life in danger. They often defy the police since the police can’t do much to stop them since their main concern is public safety. However, the 12 O’clock boys didn’t think it was that bad since it kept …show more content…

“We Real Cool” utilized a lot of repetition to emphasize the point that the characters in the poem are cool. The poem also utilized rhyme in the middle of the couplets effectively. For instance, “cool/school” in the first couplet and “late/straight” in the third and fourth lines. At the end of the many lines, “We” is tacked on put all the emphasis on what matters the most “We." The whole poem is like a song that I can picture a bunch of cocky arrogant high school kids composing. Most people just get to watch flashes of such neighborhoods through the media outlets such as news. The media often associates the people from these neighborhoods as being bad. However, the movie did a great job showing the various perspectives and the differences among them. The perspective of the news was significantly different than that of the YouTube. According to YouTube, 12 O’clock Boys were depicted as free and happy. However, according to the news, they are shown as menace to the society. Both, the author and the director, used great elements of craft and content to support their

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