How do you define a coward?

Laverna 2022-03-22 09:01:39

I know that the official definition of Robert is a coward. He only dares to sneak up on Jesse James from behind. For his own interests, for his own survival, he has no regard for morality and feelings. But is such a person really a coward? I know that poor people must be hateful, but I also figured out that hateful people must be pitiful. I'm thinking, if you limit your thoughts and imprison your intentions for the so-called morality, your so-called reputation, and the so-called moral values, is that a coward?
Just like my friend, for the sake of love, for selfishness, for the pursuit of what you like, you are shamelessly chasing a girl. Although the other party repeatedly rejected him, he never gave up, he didn't choose a tough way, he just kept spinning around her, constantly letting himself appear in her life. At the beginning, I also disdained his actions. I felt very dignified. He didn't think about their suitability from a rational point of view at all, and he didn't think about their future affairs at all. But I gradually began to feel that he is brave, and he is actually worthy of respect. He can let go of everything, disregard the views of the world, and just do what he wants to do. Although it is very irrational, he is true to life. right now. For his choice, at least I don't have the courage to be as selfish as him. Sometimes those who are selfish enough have to be admired.
So what about Robert? In my opinion, cowardice should not be used to describe what he did, and cowardice should not be used to evaluate his decisions. All I can say is that he was right or wrong. As far as he is concerned, either choice is his own courageous decision.

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  • Americo 2022-01-26 08:17:34

    It’s too long, and it’s clear that Casey Affleck is better than Brad Pitt. Why didn’t he win the award-the 64th Venice Best Actor in 2007

  • Karson 2022-01-26 08:17:34

    Little brother Casey is very loving~ The most touching thing is the heroism of the movie. When the little brother was shot to death, my heartache was endless. The picture of the movie is really intoxicating beauty.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford quotes

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    Narrator: He was growing into middle age, and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. He installed himself in a rocking chair and smoked a cigar down in the evenings as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron and reported happily on their two children. His children knew his legs, the sting of his mustache against their cheeks. They didn't know how their father made his living, or why they so often moved. They didn't even know their father's name. He was listed in the city directory as Thomas Howard. And he went everywhere unrecognized and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants, calling himself a cattleman or a commodities investor, someone rich and leisured who had the common touch. He had two incompletely healed bullet holes in his chest and another in his thigh. He was missing the nub of his left middle finger and was cautious, lest that mutilation be seen. He also had a condition that was referred to as "granulated eyelids" and it caused him to blink more than usual as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept. Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them. Rains fell straighter. Clocks slowed. Sounds were amplified. He considered himself a Southern loyalist and guerrilla in a Civil War that never ended. He regretted neither his robberies, nor the seventeen murders that he laid claim to. He had seen another summer under in Kansas City, Missouri and on September 5th in the year 1881, he was thirty-four-years-old.

  • Narrator: And so it went, Jesse was increasingly cavalier. Merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. He camouflaged his depressions and derangements with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy, and goodwill towards others. But Even as he jested or tickled his boy in the ribs, Jesse would look over at Bob with melancholy eyes as if the two were meshed in an intimate communication. Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him; had seen through his reasons for coming along; that Jesse could forecast each of Bob's possible moves and inclinations and was only acting the innocent in order to lull Bob into a stupid tranquility and miscalculation.