How are Barrio Boy and No Gumption similar in one paragraph?

Both of the boys must work hard because their families are poor. They lived around the same time periods (20th century). They both went through so many struggles, but in the end accomplished even more. Some extra similarities are the fact that they are both written in first-person and their story talk about a situation that happened when they were young boys. To add, they also share the same conflicts, and have the same values in theirs lesson