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The Man in the Water by Roger Rosenblatt talks about a man who risks his own life to save others and what the people think of him. This person was ordinary as everyone else but until the helicopter in which they travel had an accident he thought in saving the others before himself. As the rescuers came to save them he and the others were holding themselves to the tail of the helicopter wishing to survive this tragedy. The rescuers came and gave the rope with the ring first to this man who was unidentified but instead of getting the rope he would pass it on to the others who were stranded in the water. Windsor one of the rescuers said that the man look in control and that it is rare to find someone like this man who see for others before himself.

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