George Orwell, James Baldwin And Brent Staples

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. This quote describes the fact that everybody has their own personal strength but sometimes focuses or gives more importance in the opinion of others. As I searched for the definition, I chose this one to best describe courage. Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. The authors George Orwell, James Baldwin and Brent Staples were put in situations where their courage was visibly encounter and shown in different ways. These authors were victims of having to stick up for themselves in places that they weren’t welcomed for being different. They took the initiative to put themselves in those situations

This is a question that each author went about experiencing it differently. Orwell had to perform things against his will to get approval from the people in the village that he decided to reside. He was a stranger there and needed acceptance but his actions weren’t the best choices and he felt horrible by it. “To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing- no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me. And my whole life, every white man’s life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at.” (p.3) In this passage it is clear that Orwell acted this way because he is forced to by the expectations of the crowd. To him it was impossible to look like a weak person. This situation of the Burmese not liking him and expecting him to act with cruelty, is the only way he can fulfill the expectations of the Burmese townspeople, and maintain some sense of trustworthiness in their

When you act with courage it doesn’t necessarily mean you are pleasing yourself or others, it just means that you took the strength to achieve something that had to get done. Orwell, Baldwin and Staples were strangers in places they choose to voluntarily be and had to deal with the criticism of the people. In their journey, unwanted things had to get done and also changes in their lifestyle had to be made. Because they put themselves in those situation, they had to surpass the bullying and continue with finding ways of making these changes all worthy. I define these authors as having