The best definition of a hero, as explained by Philip Zimbardo in “What Makes a Hero?” is, helping others in need without expecting anything in return. For example, Zimbardo tells the story of a massive earthquake in one of China’s provinces where the ceiling fell on a school and killed almost everyone inside, “[One] kid escaped and as he was running away he noticed two other kids struggling to get out. He ran back and saved them.” (Zimbardo). This kid saved the other two children knowing that he could have gotten stuck, and he saved them without expecting any sort of reward. In addition, Zimbardo tells a story of another hero: “Irena Sendler was a Polish hero… who saved at least 25,000 Jewish kids who were holed up in the Warsaw ghetto that
