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Hyeonseo Lee Analysis

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Imagine your right arm pinned under a boulder…you’re trapped with nowhere to go. People are looking for you and if they find you your as good as dead. You’re bleeding and there are sharks in the water. Aron Ralston from the autobiography “Trapped,” Hyeonseo Lee from “My Escape from North Korea” by Ted Talk, and Bethany Hamilton from “Young Surfer Girl Tells Tale of Shark Attack” by ABC News have each been in one of these deadly situations. They prove that for a person to be a survivor one must possess courage, determination, and critical thinking. When it comes to Hyeonseo Lee, she used her courage to not only save herself but also her family. In Paragraph 15 in the article titled “My Escape from North Korea” by Ted Talk, Lee explains how she went to great lengths to get her family to freedom and how she put her own life at risk to save them. She knew that if she and her family were caught by the Chinese police, they would be sent back to North Korea and executed. Yet, she still had the courage to travel across the border of Laos, go between the immigration office, and the police station, where she could have been easily identified and apprehended. She could have lost everything she built for herself, but she knew she had to protect her loved ones no matter the cost, which is the true definition of courage. Courage can …show more content…

In an interview with ABC News from the article “Young Surfer Girl Tells Tale of Shark Attack,” Hamilton said, “If I don’t get back on my board, I’ll be in a bad mood forever.” It wasn’t the shark attack that would have killed her-it was the thought of losing her passion. After the shark attack and losing an arm, it just gave her another reason to try harder. She didn’t let her disability get in the way. She used her determination to push forward and make a great outcome out of an awful situation. Having determination can be the light in the dark, that keeps many

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