Courage Positive Change

7th Grade Third Quarter District Writing Assessment

Courage can lead to positive changes since you are motivated to stand up and make a difference and if one did not have courage, they would not attempt to do such a thing at all; If Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Abraham Lincoln did not have any courage what so ever to make a change, our society would still be in slavery and also would not believe in equality for all. I strongly believe that if you have courage, you will change something for the best. The reason why I believe in courage being the number 1 way to lead to positive changes is because in the book The Cay Written by Theodore Taylor, Phillip was lost in a shipwreck and was taken in by a crew member of the ship named Timothy both which had sailed to a nearby cay, they both were stranded on the cay with limited resources only to have Timothy die from a fever and Phillip become blind, Phillip had the courage to live on his own and ended up being rescued, which in a way means that Phillip did not give up because he

was stranded, and with his courage, he kept on going.

Also in the story “The Smallest Dragon Boy” Written by Anne McCaffrey, Keevan was always bullied because of his height and age which was at the time stopping him from becoming a Dragon Rider just like his dad, finally one day when the bully teased him and took his shovel away, they both had fought until Keevan was struck with a shovel, leaving him unconscious only to find out the day that

he finally woke up, the hatching of the eggs was today! And when he heard the news he managed with all his courage, to walk to the impressions with a broken skull and a broken leg with broses all over his body and by doing that he had acquired a dragon which changed all of the standards about height and age being a requirement to become a Dragon Rider. I think that if you do have courage, you will make a change; I remember when I was in elementary school, I would always get bullied and teased by multiple groups of kids who would physically hurt me, and verbally hurt me. One day I got fed up with all the bullies and I ended up reporting to the principal, doing that caused me to get beat up by another group of bullies that ended up hurting me even more. I felt powerless at that point, like I have been defeated, and I was miserable, hopeless, and borderline desperate for help, and, sure enough, I had built the courage to tell my Dad, what he ended up doing was talking to the principal about suspending the groups of bullies and sure enough, those bullies stopped hurting me which made me so relieved that I would not have to go through the pain and agony associated with bullies.