In the memoir “The Terror”, the author teaches readers that courage is the ability to conquer your fears. This memoir is about Diez who had a pretty hard time after getting beat up by a group of brothers while fearing them for 3 years before he stood up to them. He shows his courage by stating in paragraph 4 “I forced myself to stop. I forced myself to turn toward them, and it felt as if the whole world was turning me.” This tells the reader that He’s going to change the fact that he’s afraid so he doesn’t have to live his life in fear. In paragraph 13, it tells readers “Took me until I was a sophomore in high school — yes, that long — before I finally found it in me to start facing my terror.” It means that the narrator took a while to face