Courage In The Story 'Moonface By Richard Keens-Douglas Moon Interface'

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Robert Logga
Ms. Borho
ENG1D
March 9, 2017

How To Show Courage
Courage means a lot of things someone who is brave. A person able to try something new and be able to achieve it. Courage also means having a strong spirit to face situations. I rushed to the scene a kid was stuck in a flipped car I tried to help. There’s also types of courage for example, physical and emotional.

William, Teresa, Corey, and Moonface teach the reader that to be courageous means using fear or being brave to create opportunities out of situations.

In the story “Moonface” by Richard Keens- Douglas Moonface shows Courage by being honest to his friend when he was sick telling him the truth. At first he was afraid because of his past experience with friends. He had a hard time accepting fate. It is stated “Because he never told his friend that he was sick...you see I'm going to die. I have an illness that there is no cure… I know you're ill”(14). In the story “The Kayak” by Debbie Spring Teresa …show more content…

Corey attempted to help the young people suffering he was doing an act of courage if Corey didn’t show his courage the people could of died or suffer. It is stated “They stopped to help… WIthout hesitation, Corey climbed down the cliff”(7). In the article “William Windmill” by Elizabeth MacLeod, William is courageous because he was able to make a windmill. William had the courage to create a windmill from a book called “Using Energy” by MacMillan McGraw Hill. How he was courageous is that people would put him down like his mom calling him crazy, but that didn’t make William stop what he was doing. It is stated “ There he found a book called “using energy” … When I was making [ the windmill], all these people were mocking me… Finally the windmill was down”(16). These characters show how to be brave they give efforts to make their situation

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