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“On Being Seventeen”, “The Most Dangerous Game” And “Giving Blood” Essay, Research Paper


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 easy


times easier. Courage is overcoming a fear for a worthwhile purpose, such as


jumping in front of a train to save someone. I will be defining the courage of


three very unique individuals from previous stories read. They are Mr. David


Raymond from the bock On Being Seventeen, Bright and Unable to Read, written by


David himself. Mr. Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard


Connel, and Mrs. O’Neill from Giving Blood, written by Roberta Silmen.


David Raymond, from the book On Being Seventeen, is courageous in a


psychological way. He is a high school student who was born with dyslexia. He


writes 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 was


awful. More then anything I wanted some friends.? By the end of high school he


was more excepted in places where he once was ostracized. He even tries to help


people with the same problem he has. ?Maybe he was scared like I was….In


elementary school it was not easy….In high school I made honors and even won a


letter on the cross country team.? He put his fears aside to do what had to be


done. To learn the best he could in school for later life. The next story


deals with courage in another way. Physically.


Mr. Rainsford from The Most Dangerous Game is a sailor who is


shipwrecked on an island inhabited by only one person. A be

stial hunter.


During Rainsford’s stay he becomes the hunted. He has to put his life on the


line in order to escape. ?He stopped, held his breath. The baying of the


hounds stopped abbruply. Close. His heart stopped.? He ends up escaping the


dogs 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 my


bed……..Rainsford never slept in a more comfortable bed.?


In that story we are left only to wonder what Rainsford did with his


life. 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 is


couargeous mentally, physically and socially. She is a middle aged women who is


mother to a girl taken by leukemia. Mrs. O’Neill is forced to go door to door


in 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 of


her both physically and mentally. She is scared to go to the houses in fear


that people will say no. ??You can give platelets. She only needs platelets.


Please.? She finds many people to give blood for her succumbing daughter that


prolongs her life.


As proven in this paper each one of the individuals shows one or more


types of courage. Mentally, physically, socially, and psycologically. If


courage was not a part of human life, maybe Mr. Rainsford would have given up


and been killed. Maybe Mrs. O’Ne’ill’s daughter would have died from deficiency


of blood platelets. And probably David would not have been half the man is is


today. Courage is an essential part of life.

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