It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s the Common Man! On January 19th, a fire started in a mobile home in Penfield, New York and it wasn’t Superman nor Spiderman that saved the sleeping family, but a boy named Tyler Doohan. Most people, when hearing the word “hero”, think of a man with superhuman strength and a cape soaring through the air, but Tyler, merely an eight year old boy, shows that one doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero, just the capability to put the needs of others before oneself. The graphic novel Zorro by Don McGregor and Sidney Lima, the book Zorro by Isabel Allende, the article “The Legacy of the Fox: A Chronology of Zorro (2004)” by Matthew Baugh, the film The Mark of Zorro (1940) by Rouben Mamoulian, the article “The Irish Presence
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Although branded as fugitives by the name of the law, these men gained the trust of the people by taking action for what they thought was right and having the courage to defy unjust laws and discrimination.
This is also displayed in the movie The Mask of Zorro, by Martin Campbell, when Diego says to Don Rafael that “there are many who would proudly wear the mask of Zorro”. He suggests that a hero can come from any background, and is not defined by his class, but by his courage and honor. Alejandro himself, Zorro’s successor, was an orphan and then a bandit until Diego de la Vega, the original Zorro, takes him in and trains him.
All these people - men, women, bandits, noblemen - seem so different, yet all were capable of seeing the wrongdoings of the world and put themselves in danger to help others. There are many people who believe that they need superpowers to be heroes or they need to find a damsel in distress, but in reality, if an outlaw can be appreciated as a hero, anyone can. There is injustice all around us, and it doesn’t have to pertain to saving the lives of people. In many of these works, the heroes were fighting against a corrupt government, or for the rights of the people. These problems still exist today and the world is never in lack of a
Although branded as fugitives by the name of the law, these men gained the trust of the people by taking action for what they thought was right and having the courage to defy unjust laws and discrimination.
This is also displayed in the movie The Mask of Zorro, by Martin Campbell, when Diego says to Don Rafael that “there are many who would proudly wear the mask of Zorro”. He suggests that a hero can come from any background, and is not defined by his class, but by his courage and honor. Alejandro himself, Zorro’s successor, was an orphan and then a bandit until Diego de la Vega, the original Zorro, takes him in and trains him.
All these people - men, women, bandits, noblemen - seem so different, yet all were capable of seeing the wrongdoings of the world and put themselves in danger to help others. There are many people who believe that they need superpowers to be heroes or they need to find a damsel in distress, but in reality, if an outlaw can be appreciated as a hero, anyone can. There is injustice all around us, and it doesn’t have to pertain to saving the lives of people. In many of these works, the heroes were fighting against a corrupt government, or for the rights of the people. These problems still exist today and the world is never in lack of a