Common Theme Outline

Introduction:

1. "The Final Salute" is about a soldier who dies and leaves behind his fighting memory and all his loved ones. It talks about what his loved ones experienced during his passing away. "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" is about a son who is trying to reach out to his father who is near death, telling him to keep fighting and "Not to go gentle into that goodnight".

2. "The Final Salute" is an article by Jim Sheeler that emphasizes the pain people feel when honorable loved ones pass away. "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" is a poem by Dylan Thomas that emphasizes the need to fight and not give up in the moment of death.

3. The texts "The Final Salute" and "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" share the common theme that it is better to die going hard without giving up, leaving the people you left behind with the remembrance of your strength and bravery than to simply take for granted the last few moments of your life and embracing death itself.

Body:

1. "........I'm escorting a fallen Marine home to his family from the situation in Iraq." (Sheeler 2)

2. This quote shows how Lieutenant James J. Cathey died as an honorary man fighting for his people until his death, leaving behind the remembrance of his bravery and strength.

1. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Thomas 1)

2. This quote is repeated throughout the poem, which shows that the author is trying to tell his father who is close to death, to fight to live and not just simply embrace death.

Conclusion:

1.The common theme is that it is better to die going hard without giving up, leaving the people you left behind with the remembrance of your strength and bravery than to simply take for granted the last few moments of your life and embracing death itself.

2. This theme is supported by the two quotes from "Final Salute" and "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night". Both quotes emphasize the importance of fighting until death and leaving behind your last memories with bravery and strength to your loved ones.

3. Therefore, these two texts both share the common theme of putting up a fight and not embracing death, and to go down not with defeat but with bravery and strength to show to your loved ones.