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Personal Narrative: Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity

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Abraham Lincoln quoted “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ...I agree with this quote, because when some of us or most of us get the taste of power over someone or something, we act different we show a part of us that we never show, we show the real us, the us that have waited for a long time to know how it feels to be powerful. One evening I with my cousins and we were hunting and since I have a better experience on hunting, I got to decide who hunts and who doesn’t, I was actually suppose to teach those who didn’t. Well that evening I was bad at one of cousins so I didn’t let her hunt. Well that evening I realized that I can be nice and the meanest person ever, because I abuse the

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