Courage And Cowardice Quotes

Bravery is not inherent, it is rather acquired from the circumstances or situation faced in the life. People face lot of problems in their lives and to cope with those situations and move in with one's life is the sheer example of being brave.  The same has been depicted by both the authors in their respective books. First by Kaye Gibbons in her very famous book "Ellen Foster" where in the protagonist is shown as homeless girl with no one to take care of, yet she finds a way to live her life and find herself a house worth living. Second, by Mark twain in his

It is evident that O’Brien’s definition of having the courage and being brave was to stand up for what you believe is right, not to follow along with everyone else because you are afraid of what others might think about you. That fear is what leads a person to make idiotic decisions to prove they are brave when in reality they are viewed as cowards. O’Brien teaches us a perfect

Courage is as stated in The New International Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language to be “the capacity to meet danger or difficulty with firmness.” In my mind courage has always meant doing what you had to do, and dealing with it because you had to. I never had a choice in my life whether I wanted to move to a different city

Explaining what he once heard to be from Plato, O’Brien uttered that proper courage came from wisdom and nothing else. For one to be a true sublime human being, they must demonstrate wisdom, justice, temperance, and lastly courage. As for a man without wisdom cannot be courageous, something a man without courage cannot contain any of the other three virtues (wisdom, justice, or even temperance). To Plato, wisdom is simply not just knowing what is right and what must be done, but following through with it. Courage, portrayed so perfectly by Tim O’Brien, is “the endurance of the soul in spite of fear” (140). The act of bravery is a battle within itself. Bravery is not about acting upon one’s desires, but instead setting them aside and putting the needs of the people around them first. It is about humbling yourself to your best ability, no matter how much fear one may obtain. There are people who simply just do not understand what is right due to their lack of intelligence, states O’Brien. Then there are so many men who might know what is right, however, they have too much fear to build up the courage to fight for it. As fear so often overtakes one’s whole self without even true recognition, courage is acting against that (136). All throughout the war, soldiers are constantly faced with fear as fear tends to come hand in hand with death.

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee 149).

He shows this courage in a main part of the book. He shows it when he takes the trail of Tom Robinson. He knows he will loose but tries his best to win. These three characters show us how to be courageous in the

Tim O’brien in chapter 4 “Rainy River” in The Things They Carried claims that courage comes “to us in finite quantities like an inheritance”. He claims that courage can be stashed away until the day that it's needed like money. Obriens use of complex sentences and serious tone affects the reader in a strong way making his argument look more correct . O’briens argument about courage was shown well however, i didn't feel it was effective because, I simply didn't agree with his argument. O’briens analogy seems like a good comparison to the claim that he tries to make towards courage.

Assertion :T​he Odyssey and The Princess Bride, courage is knowing the odds are against you and moving forward anyway. Evidence: ​The princess Bride courage quote– “IT WAS NOT, in point of fact, her Westley that was causing the commotion out front. Westley was doing all he could to simply walk straight down the incline toward the main gate without help. Ahead of him, Inigo struggled with the heavy wheelbarrow.

Courage… the ability to do something that one frightens. Imagine living in a home you’re whole life, than boom you get told that you can't live there anymore and you will be moved against your will to god knows wherever. Jewish people experienced this from 1933-1945.. That’s a 12 year experience where they had to show courage to be able to survive. In the book “Night” written Elie Wiesel many examples of courage are shown not only by jewish humans but Hitler's army, the Nazi’s. Courage was needed to surpass all the hardships and adversities throughout the distraught period of time, now know as The Holocaust.

The value of courage in the face of adversity is shown in Ender’s Game and To Kill a Mockingbird. The definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus shows courage when he is against the mob who is trying to hang Tom Robinson. “A flash of pain fear was going out of his eyes… He put the newspaper down very carefully adjusting its creases with lingering fingers. They were trembling a little.” (Harper Lee pg 152) In this quote Atticus realized that the mob was very dangerous, but he had to protect Tom Robinson. This is where Scout realized how much courage her father had. She saw that he did not back down and looked up to him for that. The author wants to tell the reader to have courage and to stand up for

Courage is when you believe in yourself that you can do anything. Well, In line 270, The Odyssey stated, ‘‘Odysseus was afraid of the cyclops but had the courage to keep moving and he escaped the cyclops cave (379).

Murray was talking to his Mother and she told him that he was ‘running away to this war. That’s not courage. Courage would be staying here.’ Most people would see the act of fighting in war courageous, because they’re going to defend their country, but in Murray’s case it wasn’t, because he was running away to war and leaving his family who needed him at home. This act is seen as either bravery to some and cowardice to others.

Courage or cowardice, which option would be your choice? Since the dawn of civilization there has been a never ending fanaticism with dualities. Good or bad, right or wrong, and the hero versus the villain. Is it because we cannot bear what is past black and white, or just subconsciously color blind to the fact. Yet a middle ground still remains, there will always be an existing common ground between any two halves; we only need to perceive it. Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo forces our imaginations to surpass those concepts of duality. In the novel a war is taking place in Sarajevo, but there is an even greater war within the individuals caught in the crosshairs of imminent danger. We know courage is a preferred trait over cowardice,

In most cases, people see that being courageous means feeling fear yet choosing to act as displayed in the poem Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the article Emmett Till by Jessica McBirney, and the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Nevertheless, other individuals may debate that being courageous is limited to standing up for what is right, even if they have to stand alone, as shown in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. For instance, the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight showed courageous very thoroughly when Sir Gawain was afraid of playing a gory game but yet chose to act. Sir Gawain stated, "I beseech before all here. That this melee may be mine...Would you grant me the grace,"

A coward is defined as someone who lacks the courage to take action, a person who is unwilling to do anything unpleasant. A coward refuses to stand up for what is “right” or what is “good” because they are afraid of the consequences, they are afraid that they themselves will be hindered because of their actions. In Act of Solitude by Joyce Carol Oates, Chester Jensen exemplifies a man lacking courage. He is a man unwilling to do the right thing or do anything at all because he is afraid of the consequences. One instance in which Chester illustrates his cowardice nature is through his relationship with his wife, Diane.