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Salwa Alhajeri
Professor, Ditch
English 113B
02 April, 2015
Bravery
Who would take a serious step, no matter how hard is it or worst, who would have the
courage to do something risky and unexpected, its called bravery. Bravery is the quality that
allows someone to do things that are dangerous or frightening. No wonder when a person wants
to be brave is to try to break the limit of fear. When kind of people tries to prove their status by
taking the risk in order to reach their aims. In general there are two kinds of bravery; First is
Literally Bravery, and its mean when a person has the courage to say the right in order to repair
defects in society. Second is Physical Bravery, and it means when a person stays strong in hard
situations and never run away from their responsibilities. People in the Guernsey Potato Peel
Society were characterized with bravery in World War II. Their unit together let them be brave
enough to face the harsh situations. In the Guernsey Potato Peel Society people showed their unit
with reading the books, and be brave enough by breaking the rules in order to survive in World
War II, and there were some characters in the book were played an important example with
bravery, such as Juliet, Elizabeth, and Mr. Dawsey.
The Potato Peel Society demonstrated that the people during the war were not just
surviving, they were brave enough to survive till the World War II ends. One of the characters in
The Guernsey Potato Peel Society is Dawsey Adams. He was a pig farmer and he was the first
person who wrote to Juliet Ashton whose the writer of the Guernsey Potato Peel Society. One
afternoon, my neighbor, Mrs. Maugery, sent me a note. Come quick, it said. And bring a butcher

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knife. I tried not to get my hopes high-but I set out for the manor house at a great clip. And it was
true! She had a pig, a hidden pig, and she invited me to join in the feast with her and her
friends! Although Dawsey was trying to hide a few pigs but he couldnt, when he went to Mrs.
Muaugery house he couldnt believe his eyes, when Mrs. Muaugery has invited him for a roasted
pig. She was actually hidden it from the Germens and they never noticed it. It was a brave step
that Mrs. Maugery took, Because she knew that she would be in a trouble if the Germans figured
that she still hide the pig, and her friends kept that secret too.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you
don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future.
Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs
a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost
your reason. Andrew Solmon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. In this quote
the author is telling that to believe in people that we love even If were not. This when The
Guernsey Potato Peel Society believing in one and another. And when the author says to seek out
the memories depression takes away and project them into the future, is the Potato Peel Society
when they having a harsh time together they are trying to not memories whats left behind and
trying to look for the future with surviving together. Be brave; be strong with all the situations
that some characters had been through with courage like Mrs. Maugery, Dawsey and John.
Elizabeth Mckenna was a clever and strong woman during War World II She acted like
she didnt see any pistols at all. She walked up to the officer in charge and started talking. You
never heard such lies. How sorry she was that we had broken curfew. How we had been
attending a meeting of the Guernsey Literary Society, and the evenings discussion of Elizabeth
and her German garden had been so delightful that we had all lost track of time. In such as a

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terrifying situation when Dawsey and one of Mrs. Muaugerys friends John Booker walked cross
the road at night, John drunk more at the dinner so he forgot himself, he would probably say
everything to the Germans without noticing himself because he was drunk enough to realize. The
Germans might kill John and Dawsey. But then Elizabeth acted in a smart and brave way. She
was brave in that situation. She acted naturally in front of the German soldiers like nothing
happens. And she knew that the Germans are serious and might shoot them. Their company
would make them even stronger and braver together. They knew that if they kept such lies to the
Germans they would be probably killed. The most amazing thing that even that they are not
related to each other, non of them actually, but they kept their unit strong and never let go of each
other just like a family.
Another brave situation that Elizabeth did, is that one night the German soldiers
discovered that the islanders feasted on a hidden pig and Elizabeth gathered them in the literary
club, which they are not suppose to meet because of the German soldiers, which this literary club
became later a place where the Potato Peel Society people gather to read books and share their
obsession with books, it let them never fear the world around them, it became just like they have
the answers they needed when they read the book, and more than that they share their thoughts,
quotations and information with each other. The most amazing thing in reality, the truth is when
people read books they became more intelligent, cautious, enough to understand peoples point
and most is to know about the reality. And Reading was the only thing to let them be cautious
about the war. It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into
bookshops don't really know what they're after they only want to look around and hope to see a
book that will strike their fancy. And then, being bright enough not to trust the publisher's blurb,
they will ask the book clerk the three questions: (1What is it about? (2 Have you read it? (3 Was

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it any good? said Mary Ann. People where amazed about books actually as what Mary Ann
said.
One of the main characters in The Guernsey Potato Peel Society is Juliet Ashton. Juliet is
a well-known writer and important character in the Potato Peel Society. She was brave since
childhood, when was 12 year old, she ran away from her uncles house because he wasnt taking
care of her well. After sending her to a boarding school she grew up with Sophie and they
became best friends. In the Secondhand Bookseller by Marina Nemat, when her bravery when
she was young, she lied to her Mother in order to go by herself to the bookstore to buy herself a
book and she kept it a secret without telling her Mother, and it ends up this behavior let her
speaks out loud in her class in school when she was sixteen year old student, which led her to be
in prison but at the end she awarded as the first Human Dignity Prize by the European
Parliament and Selection from her memoir Prisoner Tehran. Just like Juliet Ashton when her
childhood let her take the step to be independent and brave to escape from her uncles house till
she grew up and lent to became in a strong personality and independent woman.
Juliet didnt care how handsome or rich for a man to marry with. Dawsey said, Hello
Juliet. He was on top of the big stepladder. I found that out later when he made so much noise
coming down it. Juliet said she would like a word with Dawsey, if the gentleman could give hew
a minute. They said certainly, and left the room. Dawsey said, Is something wrong, Juliet? Is Kit
all right? Kits fine. Its me-I want to ask you something. Oh, I thought, shes going to tell
him not to be sissy. Tell him he must stir himself up and go propose to Remy at once. But she
didnt. What she said was, Would you like to marry me?. What a shacked and brave moment
for woman to propose a man to marry her. What is natural and real in reality is men who actually
propose women to marry them, but Juliet took this huge step to ask a man to marry her.

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Worked Cited

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bravery

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/bravery