Amigo Brothers Theme

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Amigo Brothers is a great story to learn different terms on and has a large vocabulary. For instance, Tone, Mood, Theme, Point of View, Author’s Intended Purpose, and Author’s Intent Purpose are examples that can teach you different ways to analyze the story or any kind of story. As I stated earlier tone was one of many ways you can use to analyze the story. Tone refers to the author’s use of words and writing style to convey his or hers attitude towards a topic. For instance, when he says “i’ve been worrying about our fight, too” he’s showing that he cares about his friend. “I think about pulling punches, so I don’t hurt you”, that line explains that he wants no harm to his friend. “I want to win fair and square” when Felix …show more content…

The story “Amigo Brothers” try to make you anxious by telling you that Antonio and Felix left the ring, that leaves you wanting to know who wins. Another example is when Antonio and Felix start to fight that leaves you to what is going to happen in the fight, will they really fight or will they really become friends? My last example is when they start to actually talk to each other in the story about their thoughts on the fight. The theme in “Amigo Brothers” is friendship and that is more powerful than anything. For example, it never said there was one winner. Another example is, “the fear soon gave way to wave upon a wave of cheering, as two amigos embraced.” And the last example is “they were always together that they called each other brothers.” the theme is a message or “big idea”. The story’s point of view is third person because the author uses them, him, his, and they. An example would be “ at the end of the round, he trapped Antonio against the ropes, and smashed his abdomen.” Another one would be “Felix’s right ear rang ashe moved to the corner.” my last one would be “His legs folded, but he managed to fight off Antonio’s attack.” My last one would be “He got up in a

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