Courage

Collins, Suzanne, and Suzanne Collins. Catching fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009. Print.

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.”
― Ambrose Redmoon

Courage- What courage means to me is being able to put your fears and worries behind you and focus on something that you have to do, even if it means facing your biggest fear.

The quote that I chose is saying that courage doesn't mean that you will drop every fear that you have and focus on the task. But there are things that are more important than fear, and you should put your fears aside and remember what is more important.  

In the short film Ten Minutes that we had watched in class the young boy, who was the main character, had a lot of courage. While the bombs and shootings were happening he looked like all he did was want to go back to his family and make sure that they were safe. The young boy put his fears aside of the bombs and snipers attacking and rushed home to his family. The young boy also would have a lot of courage after the bombing because when he came home both of his parents were killed, and he would have to also deal with not living with his parents for the rest of his life, and that takes a lot of courage to grow up with no parents.

"On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors." My mother gives a faint shriek and Prim buries her face in her hands, but I feel more like the people I see in the crowd on the television. Slightly baffled. What does that mean? Existing pool of victors? Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me, District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female... I am going back into the arena.    


I have just finished reading Catching Fire and I believe that Katniss (the main character) has tremendous amount of courage because in this quote it says that Katniss must go back into the Hunger Games and fight to death once again and risk loosing everything she cares for again, only this time there can only be one victor. So, she puts her fears aside,deals with the fact that she might die, and fights for her life again.