Courage in Individuals in “On Being Seventeen”, “The Most Dangerous Game” and”Giving Blood”Courage in Individuals in “On Being Seventeen”, “The Most Dangerous Game” and”Giving Blood”In my eyes it is a good thing. It can make hard times easier and easytimes easier. Courage is overcoming a fear for a worthwhile purpose, such asjumping in front of a train to save someone. I will be defining the courage ofthree very unique individuals from previous stories read.
They are Mr. DavidRaymond from the bock On Being Seventeen, Bright and Unable to Read, written byDavid himself. Mr. Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game written by RichardConnel, and Mrs. O’Neill from Giving Blood, written by Roberta Silmen. David Raymond, from the book On Being Seventeen, is courageous in apsychological way.
He is a high school student who was born with dyslexia. Hewrites about his life and how difficult school and learning to read was for him. All he wants is for people to accept him the way he is. . .
. anyway life wasawful. More then anything I wanted some friends. By the end of high school hewas more excepted in places where he once was ostracized. He even tries to helppeople with the same problem he has. Maybe he was scared like I was.
. . . Inelementary school it was not easy. . .
. In high school I made honors and even won aletter on the cross country team. He put his fears aside to do what had to bedone. To learn the best he could in school for later life.
The next storydeals with courage in another way. Physically. Mr. Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game is a sailor who isshipwrecked on an island inhabited by only one person.
A bestial hunter. During Rainsford’s stay he becomes the hunted. He has to put his life on theline in order to escape. He stopped, held his breath. The baying of thehounds stopped abbruply.
Close. His heart stopped. He ends up escaping thedogs only to find himself in a dual with the hunter. On guard Rainsford. Afterwards one of us will be repast to the hounds. The other will sleep in mybed.
. . . . .
. . Rainsford never slept in a more comfortable bed. In that story we are left only to wonder what Rainsford did with hislife. Did he stay at the estate or did he go back to sea?The final person is Mrs.
O’Neill, from the story Giving Blood. She iscouargeous mentally, physically and socially. She is a middle aged women who ismother to a girl taken by leukemia. Mrs.
O’Neill is forced to go door to doorin order find blood donors to give platelets. My daughter is in the hospital. She needs blood. . .
. could you give. She has leukemia. This takes a lot out ofher both physically and mentally. She is scared to go to the houses in fearthat people will say no.
You can give platelets. She only needs platelets. Please. She finds many people to give blood for her succumbing daughter thatprolongs her life.
As proven in this paper each one of the individuals shows one or moretypes of courage. Mentally, physically, socially, and psycologically. Ifcourage was not a part of human life, maybe Mr. Rainsford would have given upand been killed. Maybe Mrs. O’Ne’ill’s daughter would have died from deficiencyof blood platelets.
And probably David would not have been half the man is istoday. Courage is an essential part of life. English
