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Theme Of The Man In The Water

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People begin to have extreme courage and strength when there are accidents. We get scared for others and dive right into help them. Some people will risk their lives to help people in need of serious help. Just like Donald Usher and Eugene Windsor, the helicopter crew, that risked their lives every time they landed in the water in Roger Rosenblatt’s essay The Man in the Water. Themes that are presented in The Man in the Water are, courage, control, and people make choices. The first thing is that people begin to have courage when accidents happen. Roger Rosenblatt says in The Man in the Water, “Of the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. Donald Usher and Eugene Windsor, a park police helicopter

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