What’s the worst that could happen by Bruce Coville, Murphy learns that you should be yourself to overcome fears. Murphy learns that he should be himself. Murphy is at the rehearsal making people laugh. “At the second rehearsal I actually make Laurel, who is perhaps the most solemn girl in the school, laugh,”(P.4, Coville). Murphy is at the play doing more than what he did at rehearsal. “I’m not making up lines, but I am making bigger gestures, broader moves, weider voices than I did in rehearsal,”(P.6, Coville). Murphy is making people laugh by being himself. These situations helped Murphy start being himself and not someone he is not. Murphy remembers that he has stage fright after he agrees to do Tiffany's play. Murphy realizes
