All over the world, people find joy by taking extreme risks. They willingly jump out of moving airplanes, climb mountains tens of thousands of feet high, and dive off extremely high cliffs into the ocean below; completely insane events in which to partake. With one slight miscalculation, your whole life could be thrown away - yet tons of people treat it as though it were a leisure activity. They find it enjoying. It adds excitement to otherwise boring lives. Not only in the real world but in books fictional characters take dangerous risks as well. Two of these characters share the life of risk, despite their various differences. Santiago, from Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, chaises after the fish of his life alone in the middle of the Gulf. Likewise, Jay Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, chaises after the love of his life, knowing very well she is now married to another man. Gatsby and Santiago show courage while committing to risky situations that could very well change their lives.
             Gatsby finds himself in many chancy situations. One is telling Nick Carraway, his next door neighbor who is also Daisy's cousin, the story of how he and Daisy have a love history as he asks Nick to invite Daisy over alone so they could reconnect together once again. Chancing such an action, Gatsby's whole plan of reconnecting with his true love could have unraveled immediately. Yes, he and Nick are now acquaintances, but asking someone to jeopardize their cousin's marriage is a daring move. For all Gatsby knows, Nick can call and inform Tom, Daisy's husband, of Gatsby's plan to steal his wife from underneath him. Another equally perilous risk Gatsby takes is sneaking around with Daisy behind Tom's back. She is a married woman, and her husband lives directly across the bay from where they are. Not only are they secretly sneaking around, but they are doing so right in front of Tom. &q...