Throughout life people need to make many decisions. It is our choice of whether we follow others or if we have courage to stand up for what we believe. I have chosen to explore the theme, courage is standing up for what you believe in even if you stand alone. This theme stands out in the novel The Wave by Todd Strasser, I am not Esther and Respectable Girl both by Fleur Beale and in the movie Divergent by Neil Burger.
The novel The Wave displays the theme, courage is standing up for what you believe in even if you stand alone. There is a part in the book where Laurie states, “the Wave has become an obsession with everyone. No one 's thinking for themselves any more.” This shows us that she has the courage to realise what is happening with everyone and The Wave. When she decided she didn’t agree with the wave she had the courage to stand up for what she believed and not just
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Fleur Beale wants readers to understand that no matter what others think, what others talk about doesn’t matter as you should do what you think is right. The main character, Hannah Carstairs was sure she didn’t want to get married but everyone who knew her believed she should. Despite the talk about this and disapproval from others she didn’t give up her opinions and stayed strong with what she believed. This is important as often in life we will have an original opinion which is good but courage is sticking with that opinion even when it is obvious that others disagree and not changing that because of this mater. A movie that is similar to this book is Divergent. As in both these stories it is not a group that they have different opinions to but instead it is the whole society. For both these characters that have a lot of courage to believe differently to what they would have been taught to believe and what everyone expects them to believe and be