From a child with fear of humiliation to a daring risk taker, Anthony, the main character of the article “Stepping It Up,” had greatly changed through his reactions in fearful moments of humiliation. Anthony, a young yet gifted child, started off as a flourishing dancer with the love to express his inner feelings through music. While in elementary school, Anthony would dance every weakened while listening and dancing to the groove of a Michael Jackson album. Although he was very confident in his dancing and showed no fear or hesitation in performing it, all was changed as he matured and discovered a fear as well as struggle in life. In fifth grade, he learned that not all talent was accepted in society when he realized that no guy would want…show more content… My friends said dancing was lame. I wanted to dance but I thought that if I did, the guys would think I was weird.” However, the discourage Anthony was not ready to give up dancing, and luckily, in eighth grade, there was another girl who shared the same belief as him. This brought him more courage to dance, but the fear of humiliation is still inside him. As Anthony matures in life, he soon realized that if he doesn’t face his fear soon, he won’t have the courage to face it again. Therefore, Anthony joined hip-hop in a Buddhist organization called Soka Gakkai International in hopes of exposing himself to the world of freestyling in front of an audience. Indeed it has when the team was broken into groups to practice for a special festival called Rock the Era. However, Anthony fear of humiliation had brought him down and made him perform poorly in the dance practice, as stated in the article, “During one of the first practices, we broke up into groups, said our names and were asked to freestyle. I had no clue what to do. When it was my turn, I tripped on my way toward the middle of the