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The Terror, By Junot Diaz

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Getting over fear helps people be more courageous. Fear helps people be more courageous. If people didn’t get over their fear, then we wouldn’t have the world we do today. Courage is getting over fear. In the short story, “the terror” by Junot Diaz. it took courage for Diaz to get over his fear by walking away from his bullies.In “The Terror” Junot Diaz had a tough home life.He got jumped by a couple boys, then he became afraid to go places because of the boys but then eventually built up the courage to walk past the bullies.Junot Diaz says, “maybe his improbable survival was what gave me courage or maybe it was all the Robert corner. me running forever”[13]. What gave Diaz courage was the book, Diaz thought he would run forever from the bullies. …show more content…

Junot says, “I forced myself to stop. I forced myself to turn toward them, and it felt as if the whole world was turning with me”[14]. This is significant because Junot faced his fear of being scared of the boys, he developed the courage to walk past the boys. Diaz in the beginning was scared of the brothers and ran away every time he saw them, avoiding them every chance he could. At the end of the story, Diaz got over his fear and built up the courage to not run away from the brothers but to walk past them. What Junot Diaz is trying to show the readers is that building courage is hard, but worth it in the end. In the speech, “Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Lecture” by Malala Yousafzai, it took courage for Malala to speak up to the tabaskins and risk her life. In the speech, Malala says “I had two options. One to remain silent and wait to be killed”[22]“ The second to speak up, then be killed”[23]. Malala Yousafzia had options but both would have ended up to her being killed, Yousafzia is very courageous in speaking up to the tabaskins. Malala Yousafzai also says “The terrorist tried to stop us and attacked me and my friends”[27,28]. The terrorist tried to stop Yousafzai and her friend from going to school, but they still kept

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