...The Lost Hero “The centaurs eyes flared like a cornered animal’s. ‘You should be dead’” (87). I chose this quote because I thought this would absolutely catch people's eyes. This quote makes people wonder what is going on in the book.The book that I am using for my book talk is The Lost Hero. The author of this book is Rick Riordan. This is an adventure fantasy and the level of my book is 4.7. I chose this book because Rick Riordan is my favorite author. The setting of my book is at camp half-blood from day to night where demigods, centaurs, and satyrs can live and have no worries. But will Jason, Leo, and Piper be safe there? It all begins when Jason wakes up and is supposed to be dead. Jason is a son of Zeus the god of lightning. Jason has no idea where he is and who he is. He doesn’t even know who his girlfriend is. Piper is Jason's so-called girlfriend. She is kind hearted and beautiful she is the daughter of Aphrodite the goddess of love. Leo is this funny creative kid who loves inventing stuff. Leo is the son of Hephaestus the god of fire. Jason, Leo, and Piper have a big problem. Gaea is awakening and she had just been thrown in Tartarus. This is the conflict, the conflict is man vs. society because camp half-blood, Leo, Piper, and Jason has to stop Gaea from attacking Mount...
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...The Day I Lost My Hero On Sunday of August 24, 2003 my life went through a dramatic change. I was ten years old, and I was in my room getting ready for bed. My mother and my sister were in the den going over my sister’s science homework. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. My Uncle Bryon and some police officers came over to speak to my mother. They took her outside and they tried to explain to her that my father was killed in a motorcycle accident. She started to weep as soon as she heard the news. I was in my bed sleeping when this incidence was taking place. I went to the den and asked my sister what’s going on. She said she didn’t know. I asked her what if something happened to our father. She hit me and told me to be quite and not to ever think like that again. I kept on thinking in my head that she was right and our father was fine and nothing was wrong. As my sister was walking back into the living room, I followed her to see what was happening. We walked by the door and heard my mother weeping even harder. She told my uncle and the other police officers, “Please, please you have got to help me explain to my children that Andrew is dead. Please.” At that time I did not know what to do or say. My sister fell out for a few minutes and I was crying my little heart out. All I could think about at that time was who was going to take me to football practice and who was going to love me and teach me how to be a man. Sad to say I found out not only was my father...
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...Death of A Salesman/Tragedy Heros A common man is just as capable as being a tragedy hero as a person of royalty would be. Many people have their own flaws and can be considered a tragedy hero in their own way. In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller there are many characters that are described as tragedy heros. The main characters that are considered tragedy heros would be Willy, Linda and Biff. Willy is definitely a common man who is a tragedy hero because he dose not come from royalty or wealth. One way Willy exhibits a tragedy hero in Death of a Salesman is he is losing his mind from working and traveling so much. Working is causing Willy to lose his mind because he works so hard and travels so far to barely earn any money to put food on the table and it is mentally wearing him out. An example of this is when Willy says “I’m tired to death. I couldn’t make it. I just couldn’t make it”. This quote is showing how Willy is mentally and physically exhausted and could not make it to work. In addition, Linda can also be considered a tragedy hero in Death of a Salesman. Linda can be considered a tragedy hero because Linda is letting Willy kill himself even tho she cares and loves him so much. This can be shown in the quote by Linda “ I found a rubber hose next to the water heater with an attachment at the end of it...Every day I go down and take away the rubber pipe. But, When he comes home I put it back where it was”. This is showing that she is doing nothing...
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...What is a hero What is a hero well maybe the story of Dale Beatty can help you.Today there are many people who wish to hurt the american people and other parts of the community such as religion and even politics,but there are also people trying to build up the community and it’s people. For example one man named Dale Beatty. He is a war veteran who lost both his legs. He goes out every week and helps build houses for the homeless and helps provide food. The fact that this man isn’t at home being depressed about how he lost his legs and is out in the world happy and saving people from the hardships of the streets is amazing. A hero is not only someone who follows the hero’s journey or has admires or even someone who has great achievements. A true hero is someone who can go beyond their beliefs and how they feel to save other. As the Brainy quote people said. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”...
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...Beowulf, even before his epic journey, his name was very well known. Some knew him because of his father, a great warrior, and others knew him because of the victories he had won. These were great victories that had proven Beowulf to be a great man and a warrior. There was even a time Beowulf had lost a challenge, but was seen as a better man for it. Beowulf was in a swimming race with his friend Breca, he let Breca win because there was a storm and without Beowulf's help Breca would have died. Beowulf was known for this, but he was not known as a hero. It was not until Beowulf went to his calling, a calling to be a hero that his name went down in history. The Call The wrath of Grendel was known far and wide and so was the payment for...
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...Heroism of Paradise Lost Heroism can be described in many different ways. People have certain meanings as to what makes a hero, a hero. Some would like to say it’s about putting others before yourself and others would describe it as completing good deeds for their cities. Paradise Lost written by John Milton is an epic that tells the story of Adam and Eve and how they put the human race’s futures at stake for sin and death. Milton displays a good sense, which I support as well, of what a hero truly is. The story takes place in the Garden of Eden, but is referenced as “Paradise.” The battle between Satan and God created the mess that “caused all our woe” (Norton 1943). God asked Adam and Eve for one favor, which was the action of obedience towards God. They each were told not to eat the fruit from a tree. Satan created temptation for Eve, who ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam, as a sacrifice to Eve, also ate from the Tree afterwards to prove his loyalty to Eve’s love. Now due to their actions the whole world and future human beings of the earth were living in sin for the rest of their lives. However, there was one hero who pardoned all man-kind from their sin and consequences of death. The most heroic character in this epic poem is the Son of God, who sacrificed himself to save God’s creation from death. The definition of heroism in this case represents someone who cares enough about the people that were created, to die for them and show them unconditional...
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...know. If possible could you help out with the conclusion mainly the last line I don’t really think it works? Thank you very much If everyone imagined we were in Metropolis and turned their head towards the window, we would expect to see cape crusaders. But is a hero just someone that wears a cape and can fly? A hero is a person who does the leg work, someone who has noble qualities and is admired for their courage. “It does not take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle”. We can all tell people what to do, but a true hero is born in the most challenging situations, and a Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks offers the view that the unlikely hero can emerge from the face of trauma....
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...legendary character whose actions are embodied to the Anglo-Saxon culture. As a hero he has the accepted and the most ideal characteristics that are accepted in the Anglo-Saxon culture. The tale revolves around these characteristics to make up an epic tale. Beowulf is moulded to possess the virtues, traits and beliefs that were highly respected and requires in the Anglo-Saxon culture. Therefore, is displayed to have these virtues in his own actions and words during different circumstances in the tale. Reading Beowulf brings out lots of similarities with many pieces of literature from the Ancient Greek and the Modern literature. The Beowulf carries is similar to many Greek dramas that focused on a protagonist who was turned out to be a tragic hero. There was an element of belief in the gods who had super- human powers and had unique and ultimate special skills of their own, and overcame unsurmountable problems. However, in Beowulf, there is no Greek or Roman gods, but there are other supernatural beings defined as monsters that exist and are difficult to win over. Beowulf is extra-ordinarily strong, agile, and super intelligent. He is portrayed as one who overcomes many obstacles and was able to kill Grendel and his mother and the others in the sea. In addition, the wide character list and meaningful names is similar to those of other types of literature of the early eras. The story of Paradise lost opens in hell. Satan and his followers are recovering from defeat after they waged...
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...in his life. I’m going to analyze the gender collisions in the following couples in Much Ado about Nothing: Hero and her father Signor Leonato, Hero and Claudio, Benedick and Beatrice. I. Hero and her father Signor Leonato Hero and Leonato’s relationship is the typical father-daughter relationship in the feudal patriarchy. Signor Leonato, the father, is an arbitrary male chauvinist, loves his daughter superficially but never truly care about Hero. Hero, like most women in that time, follows everything what her father says. Obedience is rooted in her life. Marriage and obedience are the only two things she could use to please her father. As a “useless” girl in feudal society, Hero accepts her fate. All these factors result in the chaos in wedding. When Claudio doubted Hero’S chastity and dishonored Hero, Leonato’S first response is feeling humiliated for himself, worrying about his reputation and wanting to kill his daughter to save his fame. Hero just cried and even cried to faint. The only thing she could do is sitting, crying and saying “no”. She never thought stand up, and tell her father Claudio bravely “No! You are wrong! I am innocent!” The arbitrary and arrogant father and the coward daughter are still exist in the world. The seemingly normal relationship is actually the gender discrimination and need to be eliminated. II. Hero and Claudio Hero and Claudio, female protagonist and male protagonist of Much Ado about Nothing, fell in love with each other...
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...Odysseus is not a modern day hero because he had multiple crewmen killed throughout their journey. Odysseus also killed multiple people on his journey home. At the island of the cyclops he lost many men to the cyclops Polyphemus. “Then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast. Line 255-257. ” When Odysseus made his trip back to his home Ithaca he slayed his wife’s suitors with the help of his son Telemachus. Odysseus also lost crew members on his way through the strait between Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus put a lot of his crew in harm’s way. One way that Odysseus doesn’t fit the mold of a modern day hero is he didn’t care to kill. He killed people he felt did him wrong and his house wrong. His wife’s suitors, he slayed them. Odysseus says as he slays Antinous “So much for that. Your clean-cut game is over. Now watch me hit a target that no man has hit before, if I can make this shot Help me, Apollo. line 1410-1413. ” Odysseus is asking Apollo for help with accuracy as he kills a man....
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...this grief, Odysseus illustrates a hero must have legendary achievements and noble qualities, but above all, Odysseus shows a hero must value honor. We will now examine passages depicting Odysseus sorrow in this epic, and through these passages we will show honor as the most important feature of a hero in the Odyssey. We commence our reading of the Odyssey with a common dictionary definition of what the word hero symbolizes in our mind. According to Merriam Webster, a hero is one with distinguished...
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...OUTLINE I. Introduction A. Denotation of heroes and villains B. Introduction of characters II. Robert Langdon- Hero A. Angels and Demons 1. Saved the Vatican a. Bravery b. Risks 2. Public hero at the end a. He did not have any super natural powers b. He did not care about the fame 3. Destroyed Illuminati secret society B. The Da Vinci code 1. Initially seen as criminal 2. Sauniers trust a. Helped Sauniers daughter find about the Holly Grail b. Keep the Holly Grail a secret 3. at the end seen as true hero by French police C. Hero developing? 1. Langdon has matured 2. Langdon is better organized 3. Langdon has better ideas of what to do next D. The Lost Symbol 1. Langdons lack of concentration a. Tricked into going to DC b. Used as information source by enemy 2. The victim is his friend III. Personal Opinion about Langdon A. Real hero? 1. Destroyed other religious groups a. Was it really worth it? b. Or not? 2. Made some secrets public about a. The Illuminati b. Free Masonry B. Conclusion IV. Camarlengo Carlo Venteresca A. How is he shown to the reader? 1. Family information a. Raised by mother b. Father died 2. Popes Camarlengo B. Discoveries and disagreements 1. Antimatter 2. Pope has a son V. Camarlengos creation of Janus A. His goal as Janus B. Claimed to be the Illuminati leader 1. Poisoned Pope 2. Hired Assassins 3. Killed Kohler ...
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...Is Francis a hero from the book Heroes? A hero is a person who has courage, is selflessness, and cares about others. In the book Heroes by Robert Cormier, the character Francis Cassavant looks like he is demonstrating these characteristics. As we kept getting farther and farther into the book, we find out the truth about the real reasons as to why he did the things he did in war and back home. We also figure out as to why he is not a true hero. Francis is not a hero because he is suicidal, suspicious, and deadly. Francis is suicidal because he wanted to kill himself, so he went into the war. He got into the army so young because he forged his birth certificate. Francis saw it as a chance to end everything, and he thought it would be easy...
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...expand their knowledge. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri tells his voyage through Hell in a poem in order to display his journey to God in a time when he had lost his way. The Inferno, symbolizes Dante's recognition of sin and the need to deny the temptations of man in order to obtain paradise with God. The Hero's Journey is depicted throughout the poem. The Call: The Call is the beginning of the Hero's Journey. It is when the protagonist or hero of the book is brought out of their domain and into the unknown. They are called to pass the horizon and enter into a mystery that will lead them to their destiny. The poem of "Dante's Inferno" opens up with Dante being lost in his pathway to God. On the morning light of Good Friday he realizes the error of his ways and turns to go up the Mount of Joy in order to leave the Dark Wood of worldliness and enter into Paradise. After being denied entry into the pathway towards god by three beasts, Dante's...
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...Throughout human history, society has put standards for what is known as a hero, and just as society puts standards, so do authors. Homer did such a thing when writing the epic poem The Odyssey, where he exhibits through the main character Odysseus’ certain actions that portray what current society believed a hero is meant to be. However time goes on and ideals change, and so does society. In current day society, Odysseus would not be a worthy example of an epic hero in the twenty-first century. This unworthiness can be witnessed by his destructive, blood-thirsty, and dishonest behavior portrayed throughout the story. Blood and chaos is the result of Odysseus’ destructive behavior, and being so, he is not a worthy example of a hero today....
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