Response to _We Real Cool_ by Gwendolyn Brooks

       When I first read We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, immediately it's short and abrupt ending caught my interest. After reading and analyzing the poem, I believe a possible theme for it could be that people who try to raise their social status through indecent means will inevitably suffer. I feel this way because while first paraphrasing what the poem was about I came to the conclusion it was about teenage kids who become popular due to making bad choices like leaving school and lurking around after hours to drink and do other sinful things at a Jazz club type setting and  who eventually "die soon". The title of this poem demonstrates how the the narrator speaking in first person is stating that he/she and the group all believe themselves to be above everyone else and "real cool". It seems that throughout the entire poem the narrator speaks in the same nonchalantly confident voice and there is not really a hugh shift in voice. The only difference between the last stanza and the two previous stanzas is that the second line of the stanza does not contain alliteration. This may note a slight shift in the narrator's voice of one who is done making light of serious  with the use of alliteration with events like "sing[ing] sin". Instead, it was stated that "We die soon." This exibits that finally after making all these bad life choices like drinking and sinning in order to be "real cool" only ended up making their suffering deaths more imminent. Therefore, this poem conveyed how trying to be more popular socially by committing immoral actions eventually makes them suffer later on to death.