Ronald Reagan The Deep Analysis

Taking risks is a necessary part of our growth as human beings. By taking risks, we do so knowing that the outcome could be good or bad. Regardless of what happens, the results give us new knowledge and perception of things. We learn from these experiences. When the Challenger exploded, President Reagan gracefully reminded our country of the importance of risk-taking by saying, “It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons. The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” When we feel like we’ve failed, we sometimes want to give up in fear that we will get the same result. In 1986, Ronald Reagan knew very well that NASA’s mission to send the Challenger into space had failed. People lost their lives that day. But he stood by NASA and said, “We’ll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.” Reagan encouraged
With the help of Ruby Hornaday, Tom finally realizes that sometimes you just have to go for it. “Tom knows he’s risking everything, but how can he stop? How can he say no? To say no to Ruby Hornaday would be to say no to the world.”(Lines 209-210) During Tom’s final day, he gets the reader thinking by saying, “I used to think, Tom says, that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn’t want to spend it all in one place….” “But now I know life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we’re all very lucky to be part of something like that.”(Lines 550-557) Tom teaches us to not let fear hold us back from living our lives. We must simply go for