Hero Essay

Be a Hero? Heroes are often portrayed as crime fighters or saviors. However, anyone who shows courage, selflessness, and virtues qualifies for the hero archetype. Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film E.T. the Extra Terrestrial narrates the Taylor family's efforts to illegally house an alien long enough to escort E.T. to it’s mothership for a return to the species planet without seeking attention from scientists or police. The main character and protagonist Elliott Taylor relates to a mythological hero…

is to be expected from that time frame, but it still made it hard to picture deerslayer as the hero, but nonetheless he was the hero of this story. A knight of the wilderness is the only way to describe deerslayer because he is valiant, he observes his surroundings like a warrior, and he would rather be in the wilderness as opposed to a settlement. Deerslayer is a very brave character, and the hero of this story. The story begins with Deerslayer and a man referred to as Hurry Harry…

Odysseus, the man, the myth,the legend, the hero? I believe Odysseus is a hero despite some of his actions I think he is a beast. I think Odysseus is a hero because he safely navigated out of a storm that came out of Poseidon's wrath. He also escaped Polyphemus and his island of cannibalistic cyclops. He also killed off the strongest men in Ithaca and took back his kingdom. Imagine being caught in one of those scenes in a movie where people on a fishing boat are stuck out in the middle…

Beowulf: A hero? "Be of good hope; be valiant; watch for the foe" said by the King of the Danes in the illustrated version of Beowulf by Gareth hinds depicts the qualities of a hero. The graphic novel follows the protagonist known as Beowulf for the latter part of his life. Numerous fights between Beowulf and monsters and beasts occur within the novel. One cannot dispute of the many heroic acts Beowulf had performed. One can also see that Beowulf was a hero…

Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.” - George R.R. Martin. This quote perfectly captures the essence of what a hero should be, success or failure. Which describes Santiago, who is an old man who lives in a hovel near the sea. He is thin with many wrinkles and brown blotches from the sun. He lives off the fish he catches out in the sea. He represents a hero because he teaches Manolin, a boy he fishes with, how to fish and the old ways of navigation. Santiago also tells real…

both heroes to me not because of what they offered the world, but what they offered me. To me a hero is someone that you can model yourself after. A person you look up to and strive to be like. To be able to ask yourself what that person would have done in a situation you do not know how to solve. A hero is someone who sets a good example for you and someone with a set of good morals and values. A hero does not always have had to wear a cape and work everyday to save the world. Sometimes our…

depicts a hero as a person that saves someone from danger or having supernatural powers. For example: Superman. Superman is considered a hero because he is able to serve his citizens and save others lives. His powers such as X-ray vision, the ability to fly, speed and strength adds on to why people see him as a hero. But supernatural powers shouldn’t display whether or whether not you’re a hero. so, what characteristics must someone possess in order to be considered a hero? What makes a hero?…

Think about the word hero, and it usually goes back to an early childhood of fairy tales and superheroes that save the day by someone who is strong and brave with tons of courage. They are someone a person looks up to and hopes to be when they grow up. But what defines what a hero truly is? A hero is a person in our life that shows a difference. A hero is someone who has the dedication and the ambition to do things that need to be done. A hero is inspiring, but yet they prove their…

persons and at the end of it all they end up not enjoying the fruits of their fight for liberty. They pass through struggles after which they emerge victorious. Their heroic acts are narrated from one generation to the next. These are referred to as hero myths. They represent the mind of the individual. Myths serve the functions of instilling and maintaining a sense of awe and mystery before the world, providing a symbolic image for the world, maintaining the social order by giving divine…

Hi I am krish, I use to love being hero when i was a little. I was dream about flying and kicking bad people, I always had that dream. And one day me and my dad was riding a bike a it was very chilly outside and suddenly the weather change it get dark and I was scared and they're heavy rain and the electricity went out everything stop and people were running all over the place and I saw a person in the sky and I got stok by lightning, i was with my dad luckily I survive but my dad couldn't. That…