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.