According to Ambrose Redmoon, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important to you than fear." In other words, in life there is always going to be things that scare you but one has to be able to be courageous enough not to let fear over take their...

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This struggle against prejudice is a primary element in both Snow Falling on Cedars, and other great novels of cultural influence, such as To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Etta Heine, relative to the other characters plays a minor role; yet her minor role is that of the personification of the major theme of prejudice throughout the book. ... She is more than willing to believe, without hard evidence, that a Japanese man killed her son. ...

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