After reading the essay “Heroism: Why Heroes are Important” by Scott LaBarge once, I went back again and read it a second time. The second time I read it, I looked specifically for the use of rhetorical appeals, and I then began to write my essay. The first thing I did was use my analysis of LaBarge's use of rhetorical appeals to create my thesis statement: “LaBarge effectively uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and kairos to convince his audience that heroes are important.” I then looked for specific examples of each appeal I said he used in order to develop support for my thesis.…
The Alchemist is centered around a shepherd named Santiago, whose repetitive dreams lead him on a journey to succeeding his personal legend and finding his true love. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty revolves around Life Magazine’s negative asset manager named Walter Mitty, who frequently daydreams about an adventurous life until when an important negative goes missing, he must go on his own voyage to find a photographer whose location is unknown. Although on different quests, Santiago and Walter follow the archetypal hero’s journey, moving them from dissatisfied action with their lives to finding purpose in them, showing a rebirth and renewal emphasized by symbolic imagery.…
King Arthur and Spiderman are two fictitious characters that are both similar, and dissimilar to each other. In an excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he writes about monomyth, which is a twelve step process that is divided into four sections. This represents a continuous cycle that the character in the story must go through in order to complete their journey. King Arthur and Spiderman follow the cycle of the Heroes Journey by events in their lives made parallel to the cycle of the Heroes Journey. King Arthur and Spiderman, although from two different ends of the spectrum, are actually alike, both coming from epic tales of struggles and triumph.…
Informative Essay Elizabeth Svoboda, the author of “What Makes a Hero” created a book that will help individuals with identifying and understanding what a hero is with many perspectives and experiences. Throughout the book, Svoboda clarified what a hero was within each chapter and shown how people find out what they can do to help others or in other words be a hero. The book illustrated rhetorical appeals within Chapter five, which is titled “suffering and Heroism”; Svoboda put to use pathos, ethos and logos because she described the story of Jodee Blanco of how her emotions and feelings from being abused and not socially accepted throughout high school to becoming socially accepted and a hero as an adult. People can connect with pathos appeal…
High Noon is a transitional plot, and it also gives a dreadful image of society. In transitional plot, the conflict is between the hero and society instead of the villains. Society hates the hero and wants to drive him out. However, in High Noon, the reason that the community wants to extrude Will is unreasonable. As a marshal, Will fulfills his duties to protect the town, so he brought Miller to justice.…
What makes a hero? A hero is someone who sacrifices themselves and is selfless for the greater good. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and "What Makes A Hero" by Alex Lickerman both give a strong perspective on heroism. The Outsiders is a coming of age story that is about a gang of greasers that go through many hard times such as fights and a murder. "What Makes A Hero" is about what makes someone a hero and how you don’t need superpowers, fame, or lots of money to be one.…
I turned in the assignment on the hero's journey last night and completely forgot about the proper format for MLA. After looking at my notes from last year, I remembered the appropriate header that the paper required. I have tried to edit my paper to insert the right format, but I am not allowed to. I wasn't sure if an exception could be made since the due is not until tomorrow. I am so sorry for the inconvenience and I appreciate taking the time out of your day to read this.…
A Hero’s Journey Divergent is the story of a futurist “utopian” society, defined by five factions which everyone must live by. Beatrice Prior, a 16 year old girl from the faction, Abnegation, has to choose between staying apart of her original faction or switching to another faction. She chooses Dauntless, which is about bravery, fighting, and protection. She goes through trials and tribulations, but eventually comes out on top, becoming a real Dauntless. Beatrice Prior follows the model of the hero’s journey because she answers a call, resists many temptations, crosses the ultimate threshold, is given a supreme ordeal, and makes a transformation.…
In most cases the hero has been caught by the villain and is waiting to be rescued. By this time the hero has changed so much from the beginning to now. The hero also does not have to continue to be a hero anymore. The hero can choose if they would like to continue their heroic duties or not.…
A myth is a story that holds some kind of significance in a culture, a story that addresses fundamental and difficult questions that we as human beings ask: who or what am I, where did I come from, why am I here, how should I live, what is the right thing to do, what is the universe, how did it all begin? Myths are stories that are told about great men and great women; about the forces of good and evil; about large and small animals; about natural thing as well creatures like giants, gods and other supernatural beings. The complete study of all these stories theire respective elements is called mythology. Now when people hear the term mythology they automatically think of the Greek version, more specifically their gods such as Zeus the top-god,…
There are many things that follow a cycle of some sort. You are currently in the process of going through the cycle of life in which everybody goes through. Joseph Campbell, a comparative mythologists, found archetypes, or a recurring pattern, in hero stories and came to the conclusion that they are all just a monomyth. In “ The Hero’s Adventure” he goes on to talk about a hero’s journey. The purpose of a hero’s journey is to reach a psychological transformation.…
Historically heroes and their tales have been around for centuries and revolved around certain cultures all around the world. The surroundings around these heroes change throughout each story, but the heroes themselves are all the same. The hero usually doesn’t decide to be a hero; he is usually chosen to become one by a great force. They usually all have a same basic plot story as well, they have to go on a journey and make great sacrifices along the way and along they plot of these stories he has to overcome these obstacles. Examples of these great heroes are Odysseus traveling back home after the Trojan War and Joseph ruling the people from Egypt out of a famine.…
George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic, racial, and gender as homogenous. Sand and Lermontov present multiple individuals who cross categories and disrupt assumptions of collective identity. However, ultimately, the individual cannot overthrow the collective identity and must assimilate or be erased. Both texts present liminal individuals in conflict…
How would you describe the author’s typical heroes or heroines? What makes them alike? What (internal and external) characteristics do they tend to share? I believe that the author’s typical heroes or heroines are mainly filled with some type of hope. They all seem to think that people are usually either good or bad and they feel as though there is good in most people.…
They serve as a morale booster, while simultaneously setting a standard to which ordinary citizens can strive towards. In Greek mythology, a hero was typically defined as a man, often of divine ancestry, who is gifted with great courage and strength,…