Bravery In David Laskin The Children's Blizzard

In David Laskin novel “The Children's Blizzard” he divulges many stories of the citizens who survived during the blizzard of 1888. On January 12, 1888 a monstrosity blizzard struck the Dakota territories and the surrounding states. With this in mind in took three minutes the temperature dropped 18 degrees and after an hour the wind chill dropped 40 below zero. There was no dire to the towns because settlers were too far from the telegraph wires to receive any messages. To demonstrate something weird that happen before the blizzard that day in the morning, it was nice and warm. Most children ran to their school, freely, not knowing it was there last time seeing their loved ones. The blizzard changed lives forever, for children, teachers, parents, and relatives. To illustrate bravery in David Laskin’s “The Children's Blizzard” he identifies bravery in different examples throughout the novel. The connotative definition to bravery is feeling no fear or the act of no fear. Denotative definition for bravery is the quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear. With having the connotative and denotative definition …show more content…
The first example in the is novel to show bravery was when Grace Rollag marched towards her barns in the blowing snow and ice to make and gather her cows in the barn with her son to protect and save them from dieing. Second, five boys from school left to go home in the blizzard and stayed together until the end when they were together in a tight group dead. Finally Etta who found shelter in a haystack next to a barn and remained alive with singing and not going to sleep. After all three of these stories and many more are heartbroken and never have thought of the blizzard to ever happen to them to their loved