On Being Seventeen, Bright and Unable to Read, The Most Dangerous Game, and Giving Blood

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. ÔÓ...anyway life was awful. More then anything I wanted some friends.Ó 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. ÒMaybe 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.Ó 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 bestial hunter.

During Rainsford's stay he becomes the hunted. He has to put his life on the line in order to escape. ÒHe stopped, held his breath. The baying of the hounds stopped abbruply. Close. His heart stopped.Ó He ends up escaping the dogs only to find himself in a dual with the hunter. ÒOn 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.Ó

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.