Who Displays Courage? “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It 's when you know you 're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” As Harper Lee once wrote, courage is something that anybody can show, as long as you forget about if you are going to lose or win and your selfish reasons and just remember why you are doing it. In “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes” most of the characters show courage at some point so it was difficult to pick just one person. I ended up picking Sarah Byrnes because she stayed with her dad just so that no one else would get hurt. She showed courage when she was only as little girl and she saved her …show more content…
When Sarah decided to put her trust in Eric she was taking a huge step forward to getting away from her dad. She wrote to Eric, “I have never trusted anyone completely, not even you, and I don 't know if I do yet. I 'll find out by whether or not I give you this or just rip it up. Here goes.”(Crutcher 174) When she wrote that letter she put so much trust in Eric, to not tell anyone about her dad and or that there is nothing wrong with her. She was being courageous because she feared that Eric would do something with the information that she gave him but she just went for it and gave him the letter even after she had the chance to change her decision. Running away is a hard thing to do especially when you want to stay put. Sarah decides she is going to runaway to keep everyone else safe but it is so hard to leave all the people that you have ever loved just to keep them safe. She says to Eric, “He just wants me. He’s crazy, but he’s simple crazy. He would have killed you that night, but not to be mean. He’d have killed you to get to his ‘family.’ That 's me. And he’d kill me before he’d let anyone else have me. I just have to get away.”(273) Sarah knows that if she leaves she will be ‘alone’ but it 's better than having all the people that you have ever loved die, because of you. She was showing courage in this situation because she scared to be alone and be facing her dad alone but she, again, is putting the people
She was pregnant before married, and to save her family name, the family agreed to kill Sarah’s fetus by abortion. In this reading, Drayton used Sarah story to show the reader about what
Nonetheless, Sarah broke the bar in half, and gave Peter on of the halves. ”She gave the other one to the silent girl.” In this quote, the reader can understand that Sarah is now becoming more concerned about the people around her. Also, on page 121, Sarah says, “No no, let her have it”, when the grandmother offers her a bed. From this quote, the reader can begin to see that she no longer puts herself first, and so now she is noticing that other people's needs are much larger than her own.
Soon after she started to become very violent was not only endangering herself but also the lives of her children and the people around her. The doctor told Patrick that Sara needed to be put in an asylum to keep her and the children safe. Patrick turned his basement into an apartment where Sara was safe and had a private home care with
You can conclude that there are many parts in the series where Sarah is biased. It seems that Sarah’s stance on the issue is that she thinks Adnan could be innocent. Sarah uses Ethos throughout the series. By using Ethos Sarah makes the audience decide what’s right
The quote has an underlying idea that nobody looked deep enough into it and even if she was just nervous or in shock, she wouldn't get any redemption for her actions. This plays with our emotions and makes the reader want to stand up for Lizzie and believe her. Sarah's play on her uses of logos and pathos makes the book feel like we are solving the crime, which just makes her writing 100x
Try to find help. Be careful! Good luck!” (Rosnay 92). If the guard did not let Sarah escape, who knows what would have happened to her.
She knew wanted to do that could cause her to get in trouble but she honestly didn’t care she just wanted to do what she always wanted to which was to just bury him and she could be in peace. She did as she said and ended up getting caught which cause her to be in trouble which she didn’t care cause she got to do what she wanted to.
Sarah also visits the Lincoln Memorial. "I used to march down memorial's steps mourning the loss of the second term Lincoln would never serve" (27). Sarah is upset about the thought Lincoln did not receive
Confronting Adoniram, “Sarah stood before her husband in the humble fashion of a Scripture woman (White).” Upset with his lack of words Sarah does not hesitate to put matters into her own hands once he leaves for business. Finding out her son had more authority above her determined she needed to change the roles within the family. Sammy “showed a face like his father’s under the smooth crest of hair,” (Lauter 396), who acts strongly similar to his father and chooses to withdraw himself from Sarah’s scheme. Sarah figured she was lesser than her own son whom knew the reasoning for three months.
She knows what she wants, and she doesn’t change that for anyone. Like it was said before, Sarah will not even think of leaving Henry to be with Bendrix. This goes along with her being sure of what she wants. Sarah knows that she doesn’t want to leave Henry, and she makes this very clear. Then, from Sarah’s journal, it is shown that this isn’t necessarily the case, it is only the way Bendrix sees it.
As stated within the book, when Sarah was home alone, she was reminiscing over her ex-lover who had gone off to war; this was the point when the white man had knocked on her door. In other words, when the young man pulled up, she was already thinking about her past pleasures; the only reason she held back at first was because he was a white man. In the end, curiosity got the best of her and she managed to get a taste of the unknown. Once she was done fighting against the man, the scene was described as
Also when she was with her family watching walter cronkite she wanted to say something really mean and childish(with a really bad attitude) like “I told you so.” or something like that but she held it in. Even though she made a new friend went to california with him without even knowing him for that long. But she only did that to find herself.
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. "-Muhammad Ali. In my book, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher this quote is perfect. This is about a girl who was burned when she was younger.
Courage is having strength in the face of pain or grief. In the book called Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor did a great job showing how Cassie Logan has courage and that she can stand up for what is right. Cassie showed courage when she was in Strawberry, going up against Lillian Jean Simms (her enemy), and helping TJ even though her was really mean and rude to her. Cassie Logan was a southern girl who lived in Mississippi. She didn 't like being told what to do
Another time rose lee showed her courage was when she decided to inform everyone of the news about people from freedom town having to move away, though she knew that she could get in a great deal of trouble for over hearing the news and spreading it around. I also showed that I had courage when I was on the dance teams and I had to perform in front of the whole school. Having courage helped Rose Lee overlook the consequences of her actions, because she felt what she was doing was