The British Soldier And The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Courage. This is the ability to proceed in doing a task when it frightens the one completing it. Courage is a hard concept to grasp. Many think that courage is easy to come by, in which it is the opposite.
In the poem, The British soldiers, referred to in The Charge of the Light Brigade, charged into the Valley of Death with the fear of death, yet they marched into battle with their heads held high. The poem explains the courage it took for the soldiers to march towards the cannons in order to defend their country. As Sean is reading the Poem to Michael, he (Michael) asks Sean why they would risk their lives, referring back to the British courageously marching into the line of fire. Sean replies back with, "you should honor that." He explains