Karen Harrington's Character In 'Courage For Beginners'

In “Courage for beginners” by Karen Harrington, the characters imaginative and depressing qualities contribute to the speaker’s message that whatever you like stick to it and whatever life throws your way you will always be able to get through it. In the story the speaker says, “My strange story begins inside a story” ( 8). This shows that the character is imaginative by telling you that she always thought she was a character inside a story. Also, the text “convincing herself... everything will be okay”(156), illustrates how the character is depressed because, Mysti’s dad is in the hospital from a terrifying fall, and her mom has a awful phobia of going outside. Now Mysti’s old friend, Anibal is bullying her and she feels like the whole world