Essays on Courage

To Kill a Mockingbird was published by Harper Lee as a Southern Gothic and Bildungsroman genre novel that came out on July 11, 1960. It became a classic modern American literature to win a Pulitzer Prize. That the following next year was made into an…

It refers to the act of doing something that might be frightening, yet choosing to act anyway. Many people aspire to be courageous, as being courageous does not come naturally. Courage is an attribute of good character and virtue (Watson, 1986). Thus, when one has…

“What makes someone a hero?” one might ask themselves. Is it saving lives, or sacrificing your life to fight for others? Can a hero be a superhero from a movie, or can it be someone so ordinary such as your family, friends, or simply just…

Heroes. We all know who that is when we see them. The real question is what makes a hero a hero? This epic “Beowulf” is a classic example of an epic. An epic is a long narrative poem, which is related to heroic action of…

The title of the book is White Fang. The author of the book is Jack London. The novel has many different locations in which it is set in. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon Territory which is a section of Canada. The…

Courage is defined as a state, a quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face his fears. Whether it is something difficult for most people to do or something personal that hinders one’s life, it is difficult to have courage due to fear…

When we think of the uniqueness of a human and what we think it means to be human there are so many words that can possibly describe it. However the most vital approach to be taken when deliberating what declares an individual to being human…

To Kill A Mockingbird is a memory box preserving the sentiment of a kinder and courage America, through a named Atticus. The novel by Harper Lee was published in 1960, and is told through the eyes of a 6-year-old, Scout Finch. The book is told…

Chinua Achebe once said, “when tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you do not just turn it off in one day.” The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe constructs an anecdote behind a man known as Okonkwo who also disapproves of…

Albert Camus once said, “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself”. This is the courage that the main character Okonkwo from Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart did not have. In this novel, Okonkwo is an African man,…

The Cage Essay Someone once said “Courage is not the absence of fear- but the willingness to proceed in spite of it. Being courageous does not mean being completely fearless but rather doing what you have to do regardless of fear. In the novel The…

Inside Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” story, Ellen Weatherall illustrates her courageous personality in several ways. On this note, although she is dying, Weatherall focuses on the need to bequeath certain possessions to her children. Further, Weatherall singlehandedly erects a fence around…