In this unit on Myth and Legend we read many different themes including courage and strength, compassion and sacrificial love, warning against vanity and gossip and tragic consequence. The one theme that stuck with me is courage.
I feel that courage is important because if we don't teach that courage is a good thing then, we would be stuck doing the same thing everyone else would be doing with only courageous enjoying life and they would most likely control the people that do not have courage. some of the greatest inventions happened on accident and some people discouraged them for inventing, but they still had enough courage in themselves and their idea and made things that would change lives. Also amazing things that changing the course of history happened because people had courage to make a path for themselves and future generation. If we don't have courage it
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In this website I hope that you see why i value courage and why you should value courage too.
Hercules and Harry Potter :
The story Harry Potter relates to the Myth Hercules though the connection of courage. In Harry Potter, Harry and his friends have courage to got through the third floor corridor and try to save the wizard world from Voldemort. In Hercules, he has courage to do the twelve labors to make up for killing his wife and kids. Ron had Courage when he plays chess and has sacrificial love for his friends to give himself up in wizard chess knowing he could have died. Hercules has courage when he goes against the Lion because he wrestle with it in till he gets in a headlock and strangles it to death. They also have courage when they get passed the three headed dog.
Imagine being too scared to try anything new. Imagine being too scared to take small risks, even if the rewards outweigh the risks 20 to 1. Sitting inside all day and fearing your own shadow is what you would be doing if you had no courage. Courage is extremely important to have, and award winning novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey shows it very clearly. So yes, courage is important, but why? It is important to have courage in order to try new things, help others in need, and change the world for the better.
When I think of Courage, I think of a superhero or a brave police officer, but actually courage is everywhere and in all of us, it’s just hidden in our everyday lives. The book “Jasper Jones” shows some examples of courage in everyday life. Courage is important because it´s the force that pushes us through times where we are really scared and the times where we are really nervous. We need courage in our lives or else we would never go outside our comfort zones and never take risks. Being courageous can persuade someone into doing something they fear.
Courage is important because if you’re not courageous you will not explore new things, get new experiences. An example of courage happens in the first couple of pages when Jasper and Charlie go out to explore late at night into the forest. If they haven’t gone out there they would’ve never found the body
One good example of courage is in Homer's epic poem, “The Odyssey,” when Odysseus enters the Cyclops’ cave. In the epic poem Odysseus and his men enter the Cyclops cave and the text states “We climbed, then, briskly to the cave. But Cyclops had gone afield..." (Homer 157-158). This example demonstrates that Odysseus enters a Cyclops cave and is not fearful. Odysseus enters the cave because he sees treasure and wants to get it for him and his crew. Odysseus chooses to enter the cave even though he knew the cave was the Cyclops home and this demonstrates courage, and this is why the trait should be encouraged. Another good example of courage that sticks out is Newton Knight, who chooses to help slaves even though he lives in the south during the Civil War. In the Biography.com Editors’s article, “Newton Knight,” Knight chooses to stop fighting for the Confederate Army and goes back to his hometown to help slaves, as the text states “They saw themselves as defending the residents of Jones County from the Confederacy” (Biography.com Editors 1). Therefore, this example demonstrates that Knight chooses to fight against the Confederate Army even though he lives in Mississippi. It takes a lot of courage to go up against the Confederate Army even though he lived in the south and almost everyone was against him. It should
It’s scientifically proven that people who live courageously have less regrets in life. Leaders have a lot of courage, and that’s what people like in leaders, but you don’t have to be a leader to have courage. Everyone’s born with it in them. There are people with less courage and others with buckets full of courage, but I know everybody has at least some in them. Courage is important because it’s taking a risk or making a decision to help yourself or others.
We have been asked why is it important to be courageous? In reality there are many reasons, but only few I can explain. We have to be courageous so we can try new things, do something different, or get out of our comfort zone.
Courage is important: Courage causes a lot of impactful things in the world. Courage is when somebody does something, regardless of risk or fear, and does it for their own or somebody else's sake. When somebody is scared, it can be hard to find courage, especially if they have to take a risk to accomplish what they want. Somebody who doesn't show enough bravery and courage will not do anything in life because they are too fearful. This is shown in Malala's speech for winning the Nobel Peace prize.
There has always been times where everyone has needed courage, sometimes more often than others, and I believe that there are three main reasons to be courageous. I read a book full of courageous acts, called Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, which shares the story about a girl who has scares, making her an outcast. She meets a boy named Eric who is overweight and both are outcasts and later on, he stays fat just so she doesn’t feel so bad about her scars. It is important to be courageous because it helps make people creative, more daring, and overall just better people.
Courage’s importance comes into play if choosing to live life to the fullest. “The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear.” A revealing and mysterious novel “Jasper Jones” by Craig Silvey has Jasper (14) appearing at Charlie Bucktin’s (13) home late one night. Feeling the exhilaration Charlie takes up Jaspers offer to follow him into the woods, nervous and excited they crept through the night. Charlie and Jasper discover something that never will leave their conscience.
The definition of courage is “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery” (“courage”). Is courage valued today? If courage did not exist, then the world would not be effective. Courage fetches the preeminent decisions and the impulsive decisions out of people. Dismally, people are frightened to expose their true colors. Consequently, this negative reason hurts people. Despite the fear, some rise up to the challenge of courage. Some people practice courage in a negative way as in reckless decisions. How can one simple word have so many outcomes? The answer is human nature. Human nature is what changes things for people. Courage, true courage, is not as common. Courage should be common. Edmund Rostand, who wrote the play Cyrano de Bergerac, shows how courage is used in different ways. Through his characters named Cyrano de Bergerac, Christian de Neuvillette, Comte de Guiche and Roxane, Rostand demonstrates the different types of courage.
Courage is a lacking aspect of modern society. Many people are self centered and greedy. This novel is different and special for it being a book about courage shown by people in a somewhat hard situation. Reflecting at myself, I’m sure I have shown less courage than any character in the book. I am sure that everybody would feel the same.
Courage is an important quality to have, because everyone can’t always be afraid of everything and let their fears hold them back. Sometimes people have to do things that they don’t want to do, or they have to face their fears.
I will explain why courage is important to have today’s world, what Charlie in Jasper Jones did to show courage, and why having courage was essential in the past. It is important to have courage in our lives today because it is crucial to be able to say our opinions and stand up for ourselves and others. In school, for example it could take great amounts of courage for some of us to stand up to others who are being rude or mean to other students. There are also several problems with today’s society. The people that stand up for equal rights, for example need to possess a lot of courage because there are
The most amiable qualities one may possess do not only come from one’s strength, but one’s heart and wisdom. Some characters such as Savitri from "Savitri and Satyavan" and Percy in “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” demonstrates qualities like love and courage in order to interact with one another, whilst a myth like “the Life of the Buddha” presents another example of wisdom being a necessity to further human interactions. It is vital for one to display qualities that the ancient civilizations admired in today's society for the values shown are necessary for everyday interactions. Primarily, one of the greater qualities that ancient civilizations admired is the quality of love, being an important value that is greatly and widely used
Courage is a necessity to overcome fears and achieve a desired goal. Fear is something that exists in all of us. There is no hero or any particular courageous figure that is without fear. Being fearless is not required to be courageous, one simply has to look past or overcome their fears to possess this great quality. When overcoming fears and going against the norm, there are always risks involved. There are different types of risks that come about. Someone could risk life or limb, while others risk their reputation. Either risk is serious enough that a person must have courage to endure that particular risk. Courage can occur anytime, anywhere, and often in our everyday lives. Everyone will experience courage no matter how young,