Heroes In Elie Wiesel's Game By Orson Scott Card

Beowulf: Hero or Hedonist? The way something appears at first is not necessarily what is actually true. Just ask Barney Stinson of the TV show How I Met Your Mother, for example. If you asked anyone who has seen the movie The Karate Kid, they would most likely say the main character of the film, Daniel, is the hero. However, according to Barney, Johnny, the leader of the Cobra Kai dojo, is the real hero of The Karate Kid.

People hear the word "hero" and think of supernatural humans with "out of this world" powers, who overthrow other evil supernatural beings to save the day. The classic icon of a hero is Superman because he is noble, humble, and basically perfect. To become a hero though, one doesn't have to have all these unique qualities. Harrison Bergeron is no superman, and at first he seems like an enraged tyrant looking for power. However in the short story, "Harrison Bergeron", by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., when Harrison is on stage risking his life to share his voice, he is a hero due to his brave, iconic acts to expose the government's corruption.

Even though Steinbeck demonstrates few instances where humans are genuinely enjoying life, he skillfully presents to the reader mankind’s deceptiveness and ignorance which attribute to getting Steinbeck's word across; human suffering during this time was inevitable. Steinbeck is accurate when he introduces the intelligent, yet cunning aspect of man. People would deceive and lie to one another for either the purpose of profit or self-benefit. Throughout the whole novel, the Joad family is deceived; on some occasions, it was for the better of the struggling family. For example, Pa Joad enters a diner for the purpose of buying a loaf of bread but ends up asking about the price of some candy.

In literature, the hero is a larger than life character who works to benefit the other others characters in the story. The hero archetype in Beowulf is the title character himself, Beowulf. Beowulf was the most powerful of all Anglo-Saxon warriors; he used his abilities to save people from monsters, as well as rule the Geatish kingdom for roughly half a century. The character from Star Wars who best demonstrated the hero archetype was Luke Skywalker. Skywalker, a teenage farmer trained in the ways of the jedi knights, played a major role in aiding the Rebel Alliance in their efforts to defeat the tyrannical Galactic Empire.

A hero has many different qualities and simulations like any person. He has proven by his heroic characteristics in Harry Potter the Sorcerers Stone. Taking lead to his journey of being a hero. Harry Potter is an example of an archetypal hero, shown by his unusual birth circumstances, lives else where and initiating event. Supporting the evidence found for unusual birth circumstances, Harry Potter was faced against voldemort trying to make an end to him.

Despite Jack and the other boys' recent inhumane nature, Ralph still considers joining forces with them because he is still responsible for them, and his focus is still on getting everyone rescued. This reasoning is crucial for leaders to be successful;

Watchmen is full of superheroes, kinda. Superheros are people with extraordinary powers that others don 't have, superheroes also have the ambitions and values that a hero may have. These two things combine to make a superhero who they are. All of the heroes presented and seen in Watchmen have no extraordinary powers. These people are still considered superheroes because of there crazy need and desire to help others.

George wasn't in the movie as much as he was in the short story. In the short story it shows how smart George is and the way he feels about his equality world.“ “Yup,” said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a graceful free gesture or a pretty face, would feel something the cat drug in.

Swift’s “Modest Proposal” is more effective in explaining what is happening because the topic of overpopulation and hunger is relatable to what is going on in the world. Pope’s seems to be a very distant topic, because no one goes and steals hair and is forced to die for it. Without the satire that both used it would be an uninteresting story. It would be difficult to decipher if the story was supposed to be funny, serious, or

“So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take.” (Lee 222). Compassion transformed the way Atticus viewed courage, as he found compassion at the heart of his decisions. The true meaning of courage to Atticus meant something more important than ??????. This just proves to show how Atticus was a leader and not a follower, how he managed to be different. Wisdom was knowing the right path to take but his integrity was what led him to choose to take the right