Summary Of The Short Story 'A Kind Of Courage'

A Kind of Courage Response Journal I have recently read the short story “A Kind of Courage” by Ruth Sterling. In response to the prompt, doing the right thing is very subjective; it depends on the perspective of who you ask. For example, if you ask a student whether it is ok to take a dollar bill lying on the floor they might say that it is. However, if you ask another person, like a teacher, they would probably say just to leave it on the floor. What’s right or wrong depends on the person. In this story, based on Davy’s perspective he appeared to have done the right thing. Based on Davy’s perspective, what constitutes as being ‘right’ is basically doing the best thing for him. In this situation, he had the option of either jumping off the

The show “The Office” is a sitcom about the daily lives of people that work in a fictional paper company. Throughout the show the characters often face ethical dilemmas like dating other co-workers because it creates awkward situations. For example, the boss of the company, Michael Scott, fell in love with a fellow co-worker, Holly Flax. The have an amazing connection, but due to the ethics of the company, Michael’s boss had to transfer Holly away to another district. They ended up having to break up because they couldn’t handle the long distance relationship. Another ethical dilemma, that occurred in “The Office” was that a worker named Angela Martin ended up falling in love with two of her co-workers, Dwight Schrute and Andy Bernard. That situation caused two issues because, first of all, it was inappropriate to fall in love with co-workers, and secondly she didn’t know whether to marry Andy or to break up with him and marry Dwight. The short story and the TV show are similar because in both of them, the central issues revolve around choosing what’s right and what’s wrong. In “A Kind of Courage”, Davy could either choose to jump and prove himself to Clinton or not to jump and make Ginny happy. Once choice would spare his life and make the person he admires like him; the other choice will satisfy Clinton and the city boys. Davy chose not to jump because he felt that it was the