THE GOOD .1 Courage ANALYSIS AND FINDING
The real human in real life called characters in literary work, means that the characters in literary work is the imitation of human in real life. The way human
thinks and acts represent in a or some character in a literary work. Human beings have a name, they live with others as a society, they need each other to fulfill their
necessary and daily needs and so that the characters in literary work, the characters have name, they live with the others as a society, and also need each other.
4.2 THE GOOD 4.2.1 Courage
Courage is the good of human behavior found in this novel. People who have courage usually have strength to foster and give help or patronage to the others who
need it, courage to confront the things they can change. Courage has similar meaning with embolden, hearten, reassure, urge, support, aid, help. Based on what Rachels
said in his book, courage is a kind of Beneficence that suggest to help our self and other people.
Several day after the Stranger tells about the ten gold bars and his plan to miss Prym and Prym does nothing, he threatens to tell his plan to the society by
himself. Hearing the Stranger’s statement, Prym feels that she hold the society fate’s. she encourages herself to take the decision and finally she chooses to tell the society.
“She’s taking a terrible risk,” the priest thought. “She doesn’t know anything we don’t know. She may be a poor orphan with
few possibilities in life, but it’s going to be difficult to persuade the hotel landlay to keep her on after this” Paulo Coelho:73
“Chantal did not know whether she minded or not, but there was no time to lose. She had been battling with her fears for hours,
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and now that she had finally found the courage to begin, she did not want any interruptions.” Paulo Coelho:74
To get the ten gold bars as told before, the society choose Berta as the sacrifice and meant to kill Berta in the night. Meant to save Berta’s life, Prym, a
young woman in Viscos encourage herself to stop the acction of the society. It is a risky action because she is the only one who refuse the decision to kill Berta. Prym
feels like it is her responsibility to save Berta’s life because she is the one who tells about the gold bars and the plan of The Stranger.
“I said shut up” Chantal shouted even more loudly, trembling from head to foot, her eyes wide with hatred. “You’re the one
who’s mad, for falling into this trap that has led us all to condemnation and death You are the irresponsible one” Paulo
Coelho:190
From the quotation above can be seen that Prym has a good morality, she show her responsibility by her courage action. Courage is a good behavior because
life is full of dangers and without courage, human would be unable to cope with them. Courage not meant fearleness, whether due to impassity, ignorance of danger,
confidence in one’s own stregth or skill. Every one needs courage, because no one is so safe and life is full of danger. Human can use courage to save themselves and also
to save the other who need it. People who take a risky action to help the others is good. Courage allows people to live the life they have always wanted, and to live it
without any regrets and doing any great things that the coward cannot.
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