Some people love to take risks, but some are too scared. In the poem Risks by Janet Rand and in two from the novel Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman it is clear that it is important to take risks in life. In the poem Risks the reader learns how you need to take risks in your life or your life means nothing. In chapter two in Banner in the Sky a boy named Rudy saves a man who fell down a crevasse by tying his almost all his clothes to his staff. In both of these pieces clearly states that risks need to be taken. You can only succeed a risk if you have confidence. One line from the chapter A Boy and a Man that supports the theme risks are apart of life is “Then he pulled, one by one, at all the knots he had made: between staff and