Courage

Courage.

Courage is, judging by Encarta dictionary, “The ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action.”

Courage is the theme of the Alex Rider Series.

Alex rider works hard doing hard tasks and solving mysteries. While he’s doing this he usually in danger. He needs a metaphorical ocean of courage to do so. He has so much courage he races evil multi billionaires, at 100 mph, in a unprotected Go-Kart and then could it again the next day.  His metaphorical ocean seeps into the whole book series, making the theme courage. After that Alex Rider still has courage to spend, getting ignored by his employers when he’s in danger and then almost being directed by an evil  Doctor, doesn’t dry his metaphorical ocean of courage. In fact he evens forgives MI6 for ignoring him and helps them more later!  

Like Alex Rider, Eragon Shadeslayer from the Inheritance series has a whole metaphorical  castle of courage. He rode a dragon without a safety harness and happily did it again. He also leads battles against evil king Galbitorix. He also gets injured  during battles and that doesn’t even takes out a metaphorical brick of courage.

I am awed by Alex Riders still Metaphorical ocean of courage.

Courage is important in characters in books because you don’t always want your knights fleeing from battle like demons fleeing a holy man. No, you don’t want that you want your characters standing up for themselves fighting bears and saving lives. As you now see, courage is important in fictional characters but courage is still important in real life too. It is healthy to be courageous In real life. You may not have to fight zombies or defeat evil.  But you may have to go down into the “haunted”  basement full of weird groans and moans.

“60 seconds later” narrator said.

Alex was tightrope walking between  buildings.

He took another step, feeling the heat of the burning building behind him.  He tried not to rush, one wrong step and he could have a long fall to the ground.

He was in the middle of the wire. He didn’t try to think about his sooty sweaty hands that could possibly drop his counterweight. He was scared the roof behind him was melting and the pole that hold the wire was burning. He was almost there. a fire truck came  wheoooeooeing towards him.  He was a yard away.

 Suddenly all H-E double snooker sticks broke loose!  The roof exploded sending debris towards him. He ducked losing balance and dropping his balancing stick. The pole holding him snapped sending him falling towards the hard ground. “At least I tried,” he thought grabbing for the wire.  He grabbed it. Wham! The rope tightened out. Alex’s fairly short life flashed before his eyes. He Thought, “ Uggh! I should have never became a spy.” Alex was rammed against a window head first, breaking it.

He fell into the broken window unconscious and  lacerated.

I think this could happen because  Alex is very athletic and he always tries to try his hardest to survive. Also this could happened because there was a wire connecting the two buildings and the roof was going to burn. This reminds me of a person in  one of the twin towers while they were burning . Everyone tried to get out of the towers.  Plus this could happen because the roof was tar and that means it could melt. As well, I think this could happen because I read ahead after I wrote the prediction and this almost happened.