Everyone faces fear in life, it's not just once or twice but people face fear multiple times in life. Is facing fear always easy though? Does facing fear ever get easier? Or does it just get harder and harder to face? Fear is an emotion and the best thing that could help act regardless of a fear is courage. Fear may stop you from succeeding in life, but courage helps you fight past the fear and succeed. It is hard to act regardless of a fear ,but courage helps. But how do I get courage ? Do I have courage? I had had a fear of drowning since I was a little girl. My mom put me in swimming lessons but I would never want to go because I was always scared to do the things that the other children found easy. My fear was back from playing like …show more content…
In the book, a girl named Marina had been released from jail and met her parents after 3 years. In those three years, she had converted to a Muslim and her husband had died but she didn't want to marry her husband or convert. and her baby had died. A few months after Marina had come out of jail, Marina wanted to marry Andre but she was scared because she knew that according to the Islamic religion a Muslim woman was not allowed to marry a man who was not Muslim. She knew that if she did marry Andre, they would both be executed. Marina had lost many of her loved ones, and she couldn’t bare thinking about losing Andre as well. She married Andre regardless of her fear; this was only manageable because of her courage. Although she was happy about marrying Andre, Marina was still in fear that they might get executed. Courage does help people act regardless of a fear but courage doesn’t always help people get over their fear. Marina’s situation is similar to my aunt’s and my situation because part of why we all got the courage to act regardless of our fear was because we also looked at the things that we wanted. For my aunt, she wanted to give her child a good future and I wanted to have fun with my cousins. My aunt’s and my situation is different from Marina’s because acting regardless of our situation helped us overcome our fear but it did not help Marina overcome her fear. Marina’s fear is different from my aunts and mine because our fear was created mentally while Marina’s formed because of