Courage

A detailed Summary of Courage

It was just last year around this time when I, along with the rest of the ninth grade had to give a ten-minute biography speech on a person who had done something great, infront of the entire ninth grade. I chose Jackie Robinson, someone who had demonstrated plenty of courage by breaking that color barrier in baseball. As I was sitting back watching other people give their speech, I was thinking to myself, "These people seem to be doing pretty good, but I wonder how I am going to do. Am I going to get stuck on a line? Was my speech that I had written good enough? Was I going to get crowd shy?" This is the first time I had given a speech in front of a big group like this. And then it happened. My name was called. Thoughts I had never had before came flying through my head as I walked to the front of the room. I stood for a second and gazed at the enormous size of t

Last New Years Eve, my best friend and I went to a party. There were these guys there that were picking on everyone. Calling the girls names and cracking on all the guys. They had not spoken to me or my friend nor had we spoken to them. Anyway we had had enough of this so we decided to go tell them to them to go somewhere else if they were going to act like that. So my friend and I walk up to them while they are picking on this short guy and say, "Hey, can you either be respectful or go home!?" The guy looked at me and said, "I am home. I live here." We felt so embarrassed. It took quite a lot of courage though to tell those two guys off.

Courage is also displayed on a much larger scale in A Lesson Before Dying as Jefferson, a very young man on deathrow seeks to build up himself, and earn enough courage to step up to the execution, not a hog, but a man. As Grant Wiggins steps

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Approximate Word count = 595
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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