Summary Of The Book 'The Daring Book For Girls'

There’s a book out there called The Daring Book for Girls, written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, filled with just about everything that isn’t daring. As strange as that may sound, the book covers subjects from how to play water polo to how to make friendship bracelets. When I was 8 years old, learning how to tie knots is anything but daring. But quite possibly, learning how to make your own zip-line could be extremely difficult for someone out there. The word daring is one that is quite difficult to pin-point down as its meaning is very subjective to the person using it. Based on its dictionary definition it is used to describe a very specific set of situations, but words that can be used as adjectives are always used in a variety of ways, and daring is no exception.
But showing a lack of fear, is not the same as being completely fearless. A bank robbery is daring, but so is diving off the deep end of the pool. The person doing the robbing of a bank is most likely scared of being caught, but in order to successfully pull it off, they have to commit to the idea of being fearless. Diving off the deep end could be dangerous and difficult to someone who isn’t experienced. These two examples seem like they are on two completely different spectrums of daring, but quite honestly they’re not. When something is daring, it does not always have to be positive and the same can be said for negative situations, but it commonly is something dangerous and difficult. The problem with this is that there are all sorts of definitions for what dangerous and difficult are. Words, no matter how defined they are, are always going to be used based on the knowledge or perception of the person using