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Courage Quotes From The Help

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The Help, a compulsive 2011 movie adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel . The quote that I want to direct you to is : "You know, courage seemed to skip a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family". This quote I think can refer to the theme courage and how it seems to skip a generation. In this essay, I will explain Courage in general, how we can relate this to the book, and how we can relate this to our current world. How can courage defined? By power? By strength? No, my definition of courage is when you know the task that is presented before you will risk your safety and/or well being, but you do it anyway so that you can help to achieve a greater cause. "You know, courage seemed to skip a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family”. Obviously this quote is more of a metaphor rather than a literal statement but it has an important meaning, which in my opinion it means that a large majority of us become comfortable with our current lives and that we don’t really want or think that we need change. I think that this can only change when a few people show great courage like Aibileen and Minnie showed in the book by sharing their story. …show more content…

They had begun to show courage for a change and they did this by sharing their experiences with the white people who were oblivious to how the black people of America were discriminated against. But before that there was not much protest or change because that was how the black woman of America were grown up. The discrimination had become normalized. So technically, courage had skipped multiple generations. But people like Aibileen and Minnie started a peaceful revolution by showing courage to do something that would have got them

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