Literary Essay

Brave is a tradition virtue that everyone extols. People worship the brave person, and regard them as heroes and their gods. In the long history people always suffer disaster, common people can’t change their life, so their image the hero that can help them when they are in trouble. They place hope on their imaging hero. There are many heroes in the story : Sir Gawain, Green Knight …

In the story "Sir Gawain and Green Knight", Sir Gawain is the brave protagonist who is not afraid of face death and keeping him promise by dedicating his life. Sir Gawain is the character who shows his bravery when he killed the Green Knight . He shows his bravery when he struck the Green Knight head. In the story" Gawain swung the axe and struck the Green Knight's neck, cutting his head clear off his body." this conflict shows when Sir Gawain cuts down Green Knight's head, he is quickly without fear and hesitate. This plot indirectly presents Sir Gawain-brave, because he killed a person has to have bravery, when he held the axe and struck Green Knight's head he doesn't say a word and his action is quick, these actions show he is not afraid of killing people, he is not afraid to face death, this prove Sir Gawain is brave. In addition, he is brave even when he keeps him promise by dedicate his life.. In the story he has promised Green Knight to came to Green Knight's castle to dedicate his life. In the climax "Gawain did not try to move away, he just closed his eyes." In fact, he can run away when the castle master helped him, or fight with Green Knight when he swung his axe. If he fights, he maybe has the chance to live, but he doesn't. He just kept his promise to dedicate his life. This shows he is very brave, because he wants to live but he chose to kept his promise. All in all, the Sir Gawain is a brave protagonist. He is a knight who is not afraid of face death and keeping his promise by dedicate his life. In the falling action, Sir Gawain became the bravest knight in the world.

In the story" The Sniper", the Republican sniper is the brave protagonist who is injured very seriously but also continue fighting, and leisurely and carefree having his dinner in the war. The Republican sniper is the protagonist who shows his bravery when he enjoy his dinner in the war. In the story "He had been too excited to eat. He finished the sandwich, and taking flask of whisky from his pocket, he took a short dranght." This rising action shows when everyone is afraid about the war, the sniper is enjoying his dinner. This shows the sniper didn't afraid of the war. Almost all the people are afraid of the war, because war makes people die, and no one wants to die. The sniper not afraid of war, he did not to afraid of death so he can enjoy his dinner at this moment. in addition, he is brave even, if he is injured very seriously" The blood was oozing through the sleeve of his coat." He handles his wound and" lay still for a long tome nursing his wounded arm and planning escape." Hence, it means even if he is hurt serious he also continued fighting. He didn't run away or stop fighting. In fact, if a person was hurt, his first thinking is to run away, but the sniper didn't do it. His resolution shows how brave he is. He quickly handles his wound, and thinking about how to overthrow the enemies. Although he is injured he also thinks how to kill enemies. It shows he afraid of enemies or he is protagonist who is injured very seriously but also continued fighting, and leisurely and carefree having his dinner in the war.

Sir Gawain shows his brave by keeping his promise by dedicating his life. Sniper shows his brave by injured very seriously but also continue fighting. Although they shows their brave in different ways, they also have a common- they are not afraid to face death. People shows brave can in many different ways, some time be brave is just a small thing: admit your mistake, bear legal liability. Sometime be brave is very difficult. In the story “The New Cloth of the King” the king did not wear a cloth, but people didn’t say a word, until little child say it. Except the little child all the people afraid they will punished if they say king did not wear cloth. Brave can shows in many way. In fact, everyone is brave. The different from ordinary people and hero is the thing we shows brave are different. Everyone is brave, everyone can be the hero. If you want, you also can be a hero.