Nelson Mandela once said, “I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but who conquers that fear.” Through the exploration of this unit, many characters have shown courage. More specifically, “Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview” written by Newsday, “The Terror” by Junot Diaz, and Amelia Earhart best exemplify the quote by Mandela. In the story “Transcript of Full Joseph McNeil Interview” helps us understand the quote that Mandela said. In the text McNeil said, “When I think of fear I think of something [Gen. George] Patton21 said. He said fear is something that all human beings have. The fact that we have it is not important. What is important is how we handle fear,” (20 Newsday). As you can see by what McNeil said from that quote by Gen. George Patton, it’s what you do with the fear that makes it fear. Another thing McNeil said was, “We make a lot of mistakes in life, yet we don’t ever need to give up. Goodness will prevail in the end and we just need to keep doing the right[,] principled thing to always have the moral high ground, (23 Newsday). This goes to show us that the mistakes we make can be like fear. It depends on how you deal with the fear that can make it fear. …show more content…
In the text it says, “Whatever it was, one day I found myself fleeing from a sighting of the brothers, and suddenly I was brought up short by an appalling vision: me running away forever” (13 Diaz). With the vision that he had, it made him realize that the fear inside him making him run away would be making him run away forever. Also, in the text it says, “Maybe his improbable 14 survival was what gave me courage, or maybe it was all the Robert Cormier I was reading” (13 Diaz). This shows us that before he was afraid and running, but now with the courage of his brother or from the books he was reading got him the courage to face the