Courage has no agenda, and courage is not a lack of fear. It's having fear and doing it anyway. Courage has no egotistical properties, and that is displayed very well in Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes. There's a remarkable amount of courage shown from the decisions of many characters, but most importantly, Sarah Byrnes and Mark Brittain. Getting burned and living with scars is one thing, but when your father does it on purpose to hurt you and your mother, it’s much harder to live with. Even after the hardships of dealing with her father’s abuse, Sarah Byrnes still manages to be the most courageous character in the book Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes. Dale Thornton could be seen as the school bully in Sarah’s 8th grade year. The type of kid to steal your lunch money and beat you up for no apparent reason. When him, Sarah and Eric crossed paths, he started to beat Sarah up for her
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“I think the last words I said to this class were that Jody Mueller was a liar. Not so. Jody got an abortion just like she said. It was my baby. I was too scared to face what I’d done and too ready to protect myself, so I let her go up to the clinic alone and get an abortion alone and go home alone.” This is a sensitive quote but it displays a huge amount of courage from Mark Brittian. It's not easy to call yourself as liar in front of all the people you lied to, and it's not easy to admit to something that you lied about. Despite the judgement he would receive, Mark did what was right for Jody. Courage is about having fear of something but having the bravery to do it and that's exactly what Mark did. Between Sarah Byrnes and Mark Brittain, there's an enormous amount of courage. It takes courage to stand up for yourself to a bully, it takes courage to stand up for yourself to a vice principal, and it takes courage to admit to a lie in front of your classmates. To me, courage isn't bravery, and not the a sense of fear. It's the mastery of
“I think the last words I said to this class were that Jody Mueller was a liar. Not so. Jody got an abortion just like she said. It was my baby. I was too scared to face what I’d done and too ready to protect myself, so I let her go up to the clinic alone and get an abortion alone and go home alone.” This is a sensitive quote but it displays a huge amount of courage from Mark Brittian. It's not easy to call yourself as liar in front of all the people you lied to, and it's not easy to admit to something that you lied about. Despite the judgement he would receive, Mark did what was right for Jody. Courage is about having fear of something but having the bravery to do it and that's exactly what Mark did. Between Sarah Byrnes and Mark Brittain, there's an enormous amount of courage. It takes courage to stand up for yourself to a bully, it takes courage to stand up for yourself to a vice principal, and it takes courage to admit to a lie in front of your classmates. To me, courage isn't bravery, and not the a sense of fear. It's the mastery of