Imagine that you are at the Olympic Games, swimming the 100-metre freestyle. It is your first time there and you are surrounded by the most prestigious swimmers in the world. Do you quit right away? No, this is what you have grown up on, what you were trained to do. In Hero by Perry Moore, it explores Metro City and it’s residents. In particular, Thom Green. In Metro City, superheroes are the talk of the town and are no longer pieces of the imagination. Thom is a sixteen-year-old boy who is trying to handle his acceptance into the Superhero League; and his own self-discovery, he is gay. In the novel, it is explored that identity is developed from the environment that you surround yourself with through social setting, the character development
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On the way home, the bus Thom is in is hijacked by a notorious group of villains that constantly spill terror over the city. Thom, caught in the middle of the fight ends up behind a bus, healing a woman who was heavily bleeding. “‘Nice job back there, kid’... ‘Some pretty nifty powers you have there, Thom. You better be careful or you might put me out of business one day’ (Moore 77).” Thom begins to take his first steps towards his long sought after dream of being a superhero in the League. He begins to develop no longer as someone who constantly thinks about himself, but as someone who is truly able to help people. In one of the last scenes of the book, Thom, his father, and his team are the only people that are able to save the city from utter destruction after a highly praised superhero turns against the League and the city. “‘Our goal is to stop the maniac commanding all this. So we shouldn’t try to defeat all the heroes together; all we really need is a distraction… We have to stop that alien reactor before it blows’ (Moore 392).” Thom is now a new person. He has forgotten his old ways and it more ready than ever to help. He takes charge of the plan to save the city with little to no help from more “mature” heroes. Thom is constantly changing throughout the novel and in this, we find that he changes a lot through the book because of what is happening around him. As the conflict around him builds, he will change to fit the new
On the way home, the bus Thom is in is hijacked by a notorious group of villains that constantly spill terror over the city. Thom, caught in the middle of the fight ends up behind a bus, healing a woman who was heavily bleeding. “‘Nice job back there, kid’... ‘Some pretty nifty powers you have there, Thom. You better be careful or you might put me out of business one day’ (Moore 77).” Thom begins to take his first steps towards his long sought after dream of being a superhero in the League. He begins to develop no longer as someone who constantly thinks about himself, but as someone who is truly able to help people. In one of the last scenes of the book, Thom, his father, and his team are the only people that are able to save the city from utter destruction after a highly praised superhero turns against the League and the city. “‘Our goal is to stop the maniac commanding all this. So we shouldn’t try to defeat all the heroes together; all we really need is a distraction… We have to stop that alien reactor before it blows’ (Moore 392).” Thom is now a new person. He has forgotten his old ways and it more ready than ever to help. He takes charge of the plan to save the city with little to no help from more “mature” heroes. Thom is constantly changing throughout the novel and in this, we find that he changes a lot through the book because of what is happening around him. As the conflict around him builds, he will change to fit the new