Friday, March 20, 2009

Essay

What kind of level can achieve the standard of bravery? It’s very imposing to say brave words, like “I’m very man! I can do everything for you, even lose my life!” Obviously, taking action is more important than language. In both “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “The Sniper”, their shows bravery in two method , both actions and languages. In each case, mediate readers the true bravery.
In the story “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, Sir Gawain is the protagonist who is exactly bravery. He revealed readers his bravery either from he was facing to the King Arthur or keeping his promise to went to the Green Castle. As an illustration, the Green Knight came to ask King Arthur who had the courage that can hold the axe to strike his head down. No one had bravery to do it, Sir Gawain stepped come for shows the King Arhtur’s Knights are very brave! The key note is Sir Gawain’s verbal was so severe, he said “No one laughs at the Knights of the Round Table. Hand me that axe, and I will strike your laughing head from your body!” Feeling imposing. For this reason, he has provided with bravery because he can do everything even it is so difficult or dangerous! In addition, Sir Gawain refused the Lady Westall’s remind and keeping his horrible promise. For instance, when the Lady Westall’s whispered represented she wanted him to run away, but he said” Oh, I would love to run away, but then I would be breaking a promise.” He would rather abandon his life, but didn’t want to break his promise. Thus, he was a person who looked upon oath0 is important than life! Consequently, Sir Gawain was a person who was keeping promise when he was facing to death. In summary, Sir Gawain possessed the natural instincts of bravery to facing the difficulties and death, also thought keeping promise is so important that as human cannot live without water and food in the story” Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”.
In the story ”The Sniper”, the main character is the person who revealed the exactly bravery to us. This person is the sniper who wasn’t afraid of facing the difficulties even when he was injured, he was still using his scheme to reach his purpose and kill the enemy. The sniper revealed his bravery when he was on the roof, he was so relaxed, as usual, people in this kind of a situation will be very nervous, but he was not only smoking but also eating food, it shows us brave heart. When the woman told the person in the car that the sniper’s location, he was not afraid, and he killed them, but the other sniper for that said also shot to his arm, even he go the pain, he just quickly to fixed that. For this reason, he revealed us his bravery because he can do everything, even it is a big trouble! In addition, even the sniper was injured, he didn’t give up. For instance, he made a plan to let the enemy comes out and he see his face, so he didn’t care about the pain, he was throw out his hat behind the wall and some other objects, let the enemy concerned him thought he was dead, then the sniper was shot to the enemy’s back, the result was the sniper got his purpose. Consequently, he was a hero of the readers heart that shows his bravery in the story ”The Sniper”.
Bravery really useful for people, without is, maybe people cannot understand their inherent quality, I realized I can do more, also cannot make the society getting better, like the sniper strike the enemy! Suddenly we know bravery is a part of our lifestyle! “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “The Sniper” proves this theory!

Briandney
20-03-2009