¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡± by Randall Williams and ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡± by Thomas French are interesting essays that explore the life and pressure of young people growing up. They share some similarities, yet they also have some basic differences.
             One of the main similarities is that they were both written from a victim¡¯ s perspective. The author of ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡± is a victim of social bias against poor people; similarly, the author of ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡± is a victim of an irrational high school administration. Also, we can feel great anger in both essays. In ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡±, the anger is against the social prejudice concerning poverty. When his teacher asked all the children to describe what they got for Christmas gifts, Williams clearly shows us his anger. He writes: ¡°I never forgave them . . . ¡± His indignation is not only at those classmates and the teacher who tore his heart into pieces, but also at anyone who looked down upon him just because of his family¡¯s poverty. Likewise, in ¡°Long Life High School Rebels¡±, French is furious about the unfair treatment which he and other teenagers received from the high school administration. The anger in his heart doesn¡¯t diminish even when he becomes an adult: ¡°I¡¯d still like to know, for one thing, what the length of my hair had to do with my forehead.¡± Finally, the two authors both review their sympathies in their essays. In ¡°Daddy Tucked The Blanket¡±, Williams is deeply sympathetic for his family as he writes about his sisters, ¡°But the girls got the pressure, and as they got older it became worse.¡± He also clearly shows sympathy for his father when he writes: ¡°He [the author¡¯ s father] pulled the blanket up and tucked it around her shoulders and just stood there and tears were dropping off his cheeks and I...