Courage. Courage is doing something that frightens a person. When the word courage comes to my mind, I like to think of someone doing something they are scared of. To have courage, I believe that you have to build up courage in order to use it. It’s like having the guts to do something you are afraid of. Lorraine Thornburg. Lorraine is my great grandma. I see her as a person that has a lot of courage. She has a lot of courage because she is a fighter. My grandma is currently battling breast cancer. She has stage two breast cancer. She recently found out, which took a huge impact on her life. She’s had breast cancer since November of 2015. My grandma has received four chemo treatments, surgery to remove the lymph nodes, and thirty days of radiation.