Carol Peletier A Hero

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A hero is someone who while accomplishing their own goals, has a good impact on others they meet along the way. Someone who has an amazing example and path for others to follow. Someone with superb values and morals with an attitude to match. Human beings will always have weaknesses, but what makes a hero, a hero is how you deal with your weakness; you should wear your weaknesses as a strength, you should hide or be afraid of them. I picked two people that represents what I think a hero is, one fictional the other is an very real person. I picked Carol Peletier (from the Walking Dead) and Mégan V. McCauley Conder (my mother).
Carol Peletier is a dynamic character because she goes from submissive and dependent into a leader figure and independent. I point this out because a hero can come from an unlikely place when you need it the most. After losing her daughter and abusive husband both die Carol begins the transformation from a damsel in distress to the knight in shining armor. It is a great experience to witness this in the T.V show, The Walking Dead; because in the comic she is not strong at all. Carol is a strong, independent woman who is a hero.
Carol is a completely new person compared to how she was before both the apocalypse and when her husband and daughter died. Carol doesn’t try to be anything but
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McCauley Conder is a perfect example of a hero. Many people may venerate and idolize famous people or people that they may never see the other side to. But nothing get more real than a parent like Mégan; they insult you to your face and compliment you behind your back. No friend, classmate, celebrity, nor teacher would ever do that; but Mégan would do that to anyone not only her kids but also anyone who wanted a blunt answer. Not everyone would or will want a response from Mégan, but you just might need it to get you on the right path or to keep you on the right track. Mégan, Mrs. Conder, mom, and any other name you may know her by, she is a

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