Nelson Mandela Robert B. Ray who was an English teacher at university of Florida analyzed American movie and discovered three categories of heroes which includes official hero, outlaw hero and reluctant hero that he wrote in his essay “Thematic Paradigm”. All of these categories are different respectively according to their way of life, their goals and behavior; the first one most of them are politician or lawyers, they work for the society and they are not violent; outlaw heroes are adventurers, gun fighter, they don’t know what laws are but they know what’s right and wrong. Reluctant heroes are have both official and outlaw characteristics. Nelson Mandela was a South African politician and activist who fought against apartheid. According
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Nelson Mandela didn’t like the way some laws in South Africa only favor white people, he had a degree in Laws meaning that he was a law person but at some point he fought against the apartheid law. Apartheid was a political and social system that separated whites from black they didn’t have the same privileges, they couldn’t hold any political position in the government. In Robert Ray’s view, “…the outlaw hero’s motto was “I don’t know what the law says, but I do know what’s right or wrong” (454). Although Nelson Mandela didn’t actual say this, his behavior and actions upheld that motto. He was a lawyer who fought the system and went against the law by organizing meetings then they found there and uncovering paper working documents with him, he got caught and they conceived him of conspiracy to violently overthrow the government and he was also accused of being an activist. Nelson Mandela was banned three times from entering Johannesburg living the country without papers but he still left the country without paper by after then he got imprisoned for 28 years in three different prisons still he didn’t stop when he was in prison he taught people, he was working on his degree while in the prison and he kept corresponding with some anti-apartheid activists.
Nelson Mandela was ready to do everything for South Africans even sacrificing himself as Robert B. Ray wrote in his thematic paradigm that official heroes take public duties that demand personal sacrifice (452). In Nelson Mandela’s speech “I am ready to die” that he said on 11th, July, 1963 at Rivornia, he showed how brave and how he really wanted to see the change in South Africa. Nelson Mandela said that he wasn’t afraid of dying after all bad things he went through, he said “struggle is my life” after all year he spent in
Nelson Mandela didn’t like the way some laws in South Africa only favor white people, he had a degree in Laws meaning that he was a law person but at some point he fought against the apartheid law. Apartheid was a political and social system that separated whites from black they didn’t have the same privileges, they couldn’t hold any political position in the government. In Robert Ray’s view, “…the outlaw hero’s motto was “I don’t know what the law says, but I do know what’s right or wrong” (454). Although Nelson Mandela didn’t actual say this, his behavior and actions upheld that motto. He was a lawyer who fought the system and went against the law by organizing meetings then they found there and uncovering paper working documents with him, he got caught and they conceived him of conspiracy to violently overthrow the government and he was also accused of being an activist. Nelson Mandela was banned three times from entering Johannesburg living the country without papers but he still left the country without paper by after then he got imprisoned for 28 years in three different prisons still he didn’t stop when he was in prison he taught people, he was working on his degree while in the prison and he kept corresponding with some anti-apartheid activists.
Nelson Mandela was ready to do everything for South Africans even sacrificing himself as Robert B. Ray wrote in his thematic paradigm that official heroes take public duties that demand personal sacrifice (452). In Nelson Mandela’s speech “I am ready to die” that he said on 11th, July, 1963 at Rivornia, he showed how brave and how he really wanted to see the change in South Africa. Nelson Mandela said that he wasn’t afraid of dying after all bad things he went through, he said “struggle is my life” after all year he spent in