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Examples Of Courage In Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes

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Mark Twain has described courage as, “the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” He has once revealed that courage begins with the fear to act. Sarah in Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes has gone through her life living with fear. Courage appeared a lot in Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. The topic or question of this whole essay is surrounded around: Who displays courage? In my opinion everybody in the book displayed courage, each and every character has their own uniqueness about them. Mapping out the rest of this essay it will contain information about who and why somebody or a few people displayed courage, and a detailed paragraph on my ending thoughts about. It is clear that I will be covering how Eric Calhoune depicts courage, this paragraph will explore one of the acts of courage Eric performed throughout his friendship with Sarah Byrnes. One of the things I picked up right away with Eric is he's a very loyal friend for an example, "Now Sarah Byrnes is here. My best friend. I stayed fat a whole year for her" (Crutcher 5). This evidence shows that Eric not only stood up for his friend but stood by her side, and to become fat for his …show more content…

Sarah ran away to Sacred Heart mental facility where she feels the safest, in her household she only lived with her dad who was a abuser. Running away from home was a huge risk for her and it must have took a lot of courage to go to the hospital with the possibility that he could find her. An example states, "...I came here because I thought I was going to kill myself...I needed someplace safe to decide if I could or should do it..." (Crutcher 127). Her dad had such a violent and influential power in him and he was getting crazier as the days went on, so instead of just killing herself she got the courage to run away to Sacred Heart and get

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