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Courage To Do The Right Thing Essay

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Have you ever had to have the courage to do the right thing? In these articles, the characters had to have the courage to the right thing. In the issues, the characters have to have the courage to make their own decisions and do the right thing. I can conclude that in all the issues they have to have the courage to do the right thing. In “Doing the right thing” they have courage because of their families, in “The Road Not Taken” the character has the courage to do the right thing because he wants to make his own decision. In “Thankyou Ma’am” the character has the courage to do the right thing because she has done things she wasn’t proud of. It is evident that the characters all have made their own decisions and had the courage to do the…show more content…
He also wanted to give the other path a chance because it was less traveled on. The other path could have been easy but had ended up getting harder along the way. And if he took that path he would feel less rewarded and that he took the easy way out. Since he took the less traveled path it could have been hard but he would feel more rewarded and ended with better results. In the short story “Thankyou Ma’am by Langston Hughes, the character, Mrs. Jones had the courage to do the right thing because she had done things she wasn’t proud of, so she put herself in other's shoes. When a boy tried to steal her purse she grabbed him and took him back to her house to wash his face and get food. In the article, The author says, “I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know.” Mrs. JOnes has done things she was not proud of. She might have lived a childhood where she wasn’t wealthy enough to afford certain things she needed and wanted. So when they boy, Roger tried to steal her purse she taught him a lesson and brought him back to her house to wash his face comb his hair and feed him dinner. She also gave him $10 to buy blue suede shoes. From all of these issues, the characters have to have a find a way to have the courage and do the right thing. In the story “Doing the Right Thing” the characters have the courage to do the
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