Why does oneself need to conquer their fears to attain courage? Well, throughout the age of humans, people use courage such as social courage and emotional courage. First of all, courage is when oneself takes the action of oneself’s belief and conquers what is preventing them. These are two of the types of courage; sSocial courage is when oneself helps the community, and emotional courage is when oneself overcomes difficulty by going through misery. Teresa from “The Kayak” by Debbie Springs, and William from William’s Windmill by Elizabeth MacLeod went through challenging situations where they were being put down, but chose to be courageous instead of being cowardly which teaches the reader to overcome for one’s belief and overcome those fears. …show more content…
After, Teresa’s accident her “closer friends tried a little harder”(Springs, 36) to stay friends with her, but “they stopped coming around”(Springs, 36) because they did not know how to talk to her, which led to her fear of people leaving herloneliness. Later, while she was kayaking, she met Jamie, who did not know how to ride his windsurf, and Teresa saved Jamie. Afterward, when Jamie and Teresa reached the shore Jamie asked her “ ‘Would you like to join me and my friends at a campfire site tonight?’ ”(Springs, 37) and at first Teresa did not want to join him, but realised she did not want to be lonely anymore and took the courage to beat her fearloneliness, and she noticed her disability does not define her “I see two images of me: the helpless little child on land and the independent woman on water. I become one.” and without her fear of people leaving her, then she would not have been able to use her …show more content…
While, William was building his windmill he said “When I was making (the windmill), all these people”(Macleod, 16) from his village told him he was “going mad” (Macleod, 16), but he said “I had confidence in what I was doing”. This shows that William believed in what he was doing, although people and his family claimed he was going crazy, and he had the courage to keep building the windmill for his family which was his motivation. Also, “Not only did William have the courage to dream, but he also had the will to make his dream come true.”(Macleod, 17); shows that William achieved his goal which was to build a windmill for his family, and if he did not have people mocking him then he would not have been capable using his
Fear is a thing that strikes someone at heart. This man had overcame it in such a way it moved many people and had became another thing that this man has overcome. It sure will not be the last of it.As Wiesel said “Hunger—thirst—fear—transport—selection—fire—chimney: these words all have intrinsic
An example of courage, as the judgment that something else is more important than fear, is through the character of Kak in B for Buster by Iain Lawrence. In this novel, Kak is characterized as a young, determined boy, desiring to turn himself from a comic book reading boy into a World War II hero. Planning to escape his drunken, abusive father, Kak enlists himself in the Canadian Air Force although he is underage and only sixteen years old. During his first mission, he is becomes frightened of the risk of not coming home alive, but doesn?t show his emotions because of his austere, intrepid crewmen. During this mission, Kak did not have an absence of fear, but he felt that becoming a hero like the ones in his comic book, and accomplishing his dream of fly, was more important than his fear of dying.
Throughout the book, William shows how he is determined to construct his windmill and bring power to his community. “No matter how enchanted I became in the scrapyard, my wonderful mood never lasted long. The students from across the school yard could easily see me… they would yell out ‘Hey look, it’s William, digging in the garbage again!’” (Kamkwamba, 188). Although he was constantly ridiculed, William still kept building, showing how determined he truly was. “The next day after lunch I began putting everything together.” (Kamkwamba, 194).
“The Boat”, narrated by a Mid-western university professor, Alistar MacLeod, is a short story concerning a family and their different perspectives on freedom vs. tradition. The mother pushes the son to embrace more of a traditional lifestyle by taking over the fathers fishing business, while on the other hand the father pushes the son to live more autonomously in an unconstrained manner. “The Boat” focuses on the father and how his personality influences the son’s choice on how to live and how to make decisions that will ultimately affect his life. In Alistair MacLeod’s, “The Boat”, MacLeod suggest that although dreams and desires give people purpose, the nobility of accepting a life of discontentment out weighs the selfishness of following ones own true desires. In the story, the father is obligated to provide for his family as well as to continue the fishing tradition that was inherited from his own father. The mother emphasizes the boat and it’s significance when she consistently asked the father “ How did things go in the boat today” since tradition was paramount to the mother. H...
William is a brave and powerful presence throughout the events of the story. In the book William is selfless, thinking of others before worrying about his own needs and wants. Even when his family was starving, he was constantly trying to think of ways to make their life better. When he struggles, instead of giving up he keeps pushing and doesn’t lose hope. “With that little success, I started planning for an even bigger windmill,” (Kamkwamba, William, page 73). William is curious, and
Bravery isn't having no fear; it is accepting and welcoming your fears and getting past
Along with bettering himself using the library, he utilizes his creativity to make his own toys from objects that others consider junk. “Since we had no money for a real ball, we made our own using plastic shopping bags[...]we [built our trucks] from Shake Shake cartons and pieces of wire. To us, they were just as beautiful [as the expensive toys]” (24). He seizes the opportunity enjoy his childhood using free materials, one that many others would not. To gather the components for his windmill, William “[spends] the next three weeks sifting through the grass [of the junkyard] like a bomb-sniffing dog, turning over every piece of metal in hopes of uncovering a generator [he] may have missed” (183). Despite his inability to purchase expensive, pre-made parts, he is able to create his own by searching through the junkyard. This perseverance leads to his success in not only having a windmill as a power source, but also as a booster for his education later on in his life. William has trouble accessing the proper tools to build his windmill as well, but instead of admitting defeat, he made his own when he went “into the kitchen and stuck the cob-handled nail into the fire, and once it glowed hot, [he] bored a square pattern [into the blades]” (188). His determination and ability to use materials that others considered
Nelson Mandela once said “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” And fear is just a state of mind, a strong and thick barrier that prevents us from success and achieving our dreams or what we believe is right to us, but it is weak and thin when standing against courage, and once it is defeated, those barriers dissipate. But the main question is how can we conquer fear and in what form? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, it illustrates the forms of courage that exist in the main characters through the conflicts and barriers they constantly come across, and how they try to approach them and solve them. Therefore, it is clear, and easy for us to learn that true bravery does not only come in one form, but rather many.
Great fear can sometimes turn into great courage and self-confidence. Stephen Crane describes this fact exceptionally well in his novel The Red Badge of Courage. In the beginning of Crane’s novel Henry has a fear of the unknown along with many other fears. He is going into battle and he has not been tested in such a way before. Henry’s courage was eventually gained from experience and from confidence in himself and his regiment. The Red Badge of Courage demonstrates that courage cannot be defined as taking action without fear, but rather to be courageous in the face of one's fears. This is obvious when Henry acts like a coward in his first battle, in his retreat back to camp, and fights courageously in his last battle at Chancellorsville.
Being courageous can be difficult because we as people often do not like putting ourselves into a situation that may be difficult or uncomfortable for us. But, as people we are put into many different situations in which we must have courage. When most people think of courage they relate this to standing up in front of a crowd, making decisions that may be the “unpopular” thing to do, or standing up to someone or for something we believe in. When people think of courage they often think of having a powerful feeling that makes you want to do something out of the ordinary, or out of your comfort zone that could cause “pain or difficulty” (“Courage”). A person that comes to mind when I think of showing courage is Odysseus, from The Odyssey. Odysseus
Many people confuse courage for not being scared of what could happen, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important that fear.” Courage isn’t being able to act like nothing will scare you or make life more difficult, it’s the ability to realize that something will be difficult or scary and you overcome the difficulty. Courage is the ability to overcome hardship, not avoid it or create more of it to make yourself seem more
Dr. Robert Anthony wrote, “courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway”. For the duration of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the author, Harper Lee, explains to the reader what real courage is. I believe that courage is doing what you believe is right even if your scared to do it and others disapprove. The story takes place in the small town of Maycomb. Maycomb is in the south where blacks and whites aren't supposed to be together.
It is quite a natural feat for human beings to be afraid. The sheer act of fearing something or someone is what makes human, human. The emotions involved, the quick twist of the mind to battle the queasiness being felt, the all-encompassing truth that in one way or another, there would come a point that all will broke loose when fear takes over. Being afraid is something that a person shouldn't be ashamed of since it is natural---and those who come-off as brave are technically those who has a lot of phobias, simply said, defense mechanism. There are moments when the fears or phobias that we've been nursing somewhat hindered us from doing what we really wanted, and this is the face of fear that one should worry about.
All day working, for what? In a couple years there will be an invention to do it in a couple of seconds. Every second someone’s imagination is working to make life easier. One of the most unappreciated inventions in technology is the windmill or wind turbine. You may wonder how the windmill has affected life as it is today or if it has even affected it. To answer this, you’ll have to look at the history of windmills.
“Courage is resistance to fear, Mastery of fear, Not absence of fear. ”(184) This is a quote from the book The Boy Who Dared, written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. The book is about A kid named Helmuth that lives in hamburg germany. The nazi party takes power and Helmuth doesn’t agree with everything the do.