Personal Narrative: My Hero

Yes any of the greasers can be a hero by just doing one little thing and they don’t even realize that they are a hero. Darry is a hero because after his parents died, he had to take care of his siblings Ponyboy and Sodapop. The text states on page two it states “ Darry’s hard and firm and rarely grins at all.

Darrel, or Darry has always wanted to become something amazing in life, but sadly when his parents died in a fatal car crash, he was left to raise his two younger brothers, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. More specifically, Darrel chooses his gang over his potential future to care for his friends but sadly, “. . . Darry has never really gotten over not going to college” (Hinton 109). Basically, anybody would choose to finish a career over a more strenuous life of arduous occupations. Of course, Darry would have chosen college over two jobs, but because of his compassion towards the gang, he would choose them over anything.

(Crowe 192) This shows significant character development for him,which contributes to identity. Hiram’s experience in witnessing a failed justice system for African Americans also caused a change in his personality. In the beginning of the book, he loved Greenwood, his grandfather’s home, and thought it was incredible. In the beginning, he states, “It was the best place on Earth” and that he, “loved [his] grandparents.”

The motif hero in the book night doesn 't appear often, the word actually only shows up one time. The consonsept of heroes is what is tossed around. The guy in the beginning of the book that tells Elie and his father that they are age 18 and 40 so they won 't go to the crematorium. This guy is a hero because he saved Elie’s and his father’s life and maybe others well risking himself.

In his short story collection We Live in Water, Jess Walter echoes the theme that people are products of their environment, despite any effort to escape the adversities that hold them back. This theme clearly appears in the opening story, “Anything Helps,” where a widowed and homeless man, Bit, tries to recover from the death of his wife by making amends with his estranged son. This devastating yet heartwarming story shows how one man goes to great lengths in an attempt to change his life. Walter also exposes the theme in the most prominent piece of the collection. The story “We Live in Water” provides a flashback and flash-forward structure by following Oren Dessens, a man who cheats on his wife and has conflict with the worst man in town and describing the journey of Michael, a lawyer returning to his hometown expecting to find his absent father, but instead, ends up learning more about himself

“Homeless man Interviews Himself” By Albert Bliss is basically praising the homeless people and making them seem like heroes. Bliss states “I remember feeling jealous of their carefree lifestyle. No one to answer to and no rules to follow seemed to me like the best kind of life.” This describes how when Bliss was a child he would feel jealous of the homeless people, thus praising the homeless. Bliss also states “Even though I was only twelve years old, I thought of these homeless riffraff as rugged individualists.

Malcolm X has the showing of a hero because of him fighting for freedom, education, and equality. What would it be like to live in a place where the color of your skin determined if you could get a cheeseburger at your favorite restaurant, or where you have to go to school, and even be able to drink out of a drinking fountain or have to use the dog fountain. Well life isn 't like that since Malcolm X fought for freedom, education, and equality. He lived in a very racist community which burned down their house and killed his father. He was in foster homes for the rest of his childhood, then went to prison for 10 years after he turned into a street “juggie” after that he became a minister and an activist and spent the rest of his life persisting in America to achieve freedom, education, and freedom.

There are many lessons Odysseus and is men learn on their journey home in the Odyssey. Unfortunately, only Odysseus makes it home and the rest of men are dead because of their foolish actions. In the Thrinacia and The Cattle of the Sun episode of the Odyssey Odysseus’s men once again disobey him and cost them their lives. The men and Odysseus learn valuable lessons throughout their epic journey, but in the episode the most important lessons they learn are; temptation can lead to death, being obedient can save your life, and trust your instincts. If Odysseus’s men would have been more obedient to their leader Odysseus perhaps all of them would have made it back home alive.

Albom uses it to show the difference between Eddie’s father’s character towards him and Mickey. Poe uses it when the prince attempts to save all his friends but in turn ends up being the reason for their death. Unfortunately, the way the good and evil are displayed are very unalike. Eddie’s father had always been mean to him which gave Eddie the impression that his father was a bag man. Eddie was eventually told the story of how his father saved Mickey’s life.

I gained this from observing him with his elderly father, and my grandfather. My father is compassionate by always going out of his way for family, when my grandfather was very ill my father stood by his side and helped him though everything, for instance when my grandfather had dementia, my father was patient with him and eased him. I learned to be compassionate and loving from his actions and I then too began to stay up late at

This allows us to seek answers to try to define a certain complex matter. The humanities is the usual to try to understand these intangible answers. (Coleman 2010). In my picture I added a picture of a homeless man that I took in San Francisco in which it made me realize that money is not the only necessity to be happy. Although asking for money the man seemed to care for his dog, have a smile on his face, and say “God bless you” to us.

In Scratch beginnings, Adam Shepard tells the story from a homeless persons point of view to show appreciativeness. Shepard says “More than anything else over the course of my project, I grew to appreciate, even more than before , that we live in the greatest country in the world.” (213). By becoming homeless and leaving everything he had makes him a lot more encountered in working hard for what he wanted and where he wanted to get in life. For example, He worked a low paying job at the car wash while trying to find a better job, and he doesn’t spend money on food in order to save money for his apartment.

Deardevil is a hero whose name is matthew. He grew up in Hells Kitchen with his father who is a boxer, nicknamed Jack "The Devil" Murdock was a contender. Matthew had an accident as a child that left him blind, but four other senses increased functionality that makes it easy to do things like normal people. After the accident matthew and his father did not give up on the circumstances, they promise to pursue ideals.

In just a few short years he went from flying high to living in his childhood home. Hating life he stuffs his feelings down with food. Angelo Brunetti envied the many gay men in Cedar Falls who embraced who they were instead of living a lie. Owning a construction company had him working close with rough men, who may not take his orientation well. He might prefer to not have to hide who he was, but Angelo didn’t see any reason to come out of the proverbial closet.

Typically, Melvin had a very specific routine for his weeks and days, down to the very minute, but things changed when he started watching his neighbor Simon’s dog named Verdell. While forming a friendship with Verdell, Mr. Udall’s common compulsive behaviors, such as walking to breakfast and locking and relocking the door of his apartment, got altered or forgotten about without major panic attacks by him (As Good as It Gets). Another non-medicinal source that lessened the impact of his OCD was his relationship with Carol. Similar with Verdell, Melvin’s relationship and love for Carol caused him to do things and act ways way outside of his typical repetitive