Eder y Josefina about Brass Knuckles

We think "Brass Knuckles" is a good text about what it means be brave, although its characters are teenagers and context situation recreates a teenager world, is possible to extrapolate its moral to our adult lives our situations and problems.

There are different ways to address our dificulties especially those who assault our freedom and dignity and always it can respond violence with violence if we make a literal reading of the text, but following the moral that the author says at the end "there is always a jujitsu for all Red" we are invited to be creative and find how to keep our beliefs whit us a do what we must do to maintain our dignity and self esteem.

My opinion about Brass Knuckles

I think that Brass Knuckles is a text that traies to explain how a human being can find the correct way to fight without force.
The author talks about the envy that the main character feels to Red because he is stronger than everyone in the city. This main character is intimatated by Red because he knows how to fight. Nevertheless, the main character decides to preparing by himself in fighting and wrestling, he tooks a texbook on jujitsu and then, he learns techniques of how to be faster than the enemy.
This character is a poet and his first poem was to Red, for that reason Red banged him. So, the message of the text is that everyone can be brave and do not care the way you get to fight, you can beat only using your encourage and your intelligence.
Finally, one phrase is open with this text: "the brave can live only until the cowardly wants".

Liliana Vargas