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Courageous In The Terror, By Junot Diaz
People are sometimes hesitant and sometimes it can be painful to be courageous, but it’s the right thing to do all the time. In “The Terror” by Junot Diaz, Junot Diaz’s story is about the narrator being an immigrant boy and going through terrible bullying and the narrator’s brother being sick. moreover how the narrator got through all the troubles and facing the narrator facing his own fear, but he was courageous.in case of how the narrator was getting bullied is when the whole school started to make the narrator feel like a freak, the narrator said, “by my third month, that school had me feeling like the poorest, ugliest immigrant freak in the universe”(Diaz 2). Demonstrating that the boy was courageous was that he faced through all the racism

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