Dialogue Essay: The Hero's Last Day

This fiction novel published October 10, 2010, about Greek gods, goddesses, and their children is a sequel to The Percy Jackson series. It is full of adventure, suspense, and just the right amount of romance. It is The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. The Idea for The Percy Jackson series started as a bedtime story he told his son, Haley, about ancient Greek heroes. Since his son had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, all the demigods in both The Percy Jackson Series and The Lost Hero have these disorders. The intended audience for this book is young adults/teens.

In society today, consumerism is a major component in the lives of not only Americans, but around the world. People are constantly looking for the next best thing to replace the things they already have. The purpose of this essay is to break down consumerism by using rhetorical analysis on the commercial for Kia’s new crosstrek, the Niro. This commercial relies heavily on the appeal to humor by having unrealistic, comedic actions. Along with humor, it establishes credibility by having a well-known comedic actress, Melissa McCarthy, as the star. The advertisement also plays on a person’s wanting to be a hero by having the commercial title be “Hero’s Journey.”

and powers beyond the range of any human. The hero himself bring a mystical quality to the story

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure, in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” This quote, stated by Christopher Reed, best defines a hero in the simplest terms. A hero is someone whose job is to put others safety before their own and show perseverance in tough situations, even if they do not always get the recognition for it.

Two years ago I would never have thought that he would be dead now and that she would be happily smitten by somebody else.

There’s a slim chance that a person can be strong all the time. Although that may be true, there’s an internal drive to want to be the person that everyone can rely on for support. I embody that person. I have moved twenty-seven different times, my parents are divorced, I have lived by myself for the past five years, and I learned how to live without people. However, since I knew what true loneliness felt like I made sure that everyone knew they could rely on me. I have never really cried and always carried the persona that I didn’t care what people thought about me, and I made sure that even if I was having a bad day that no one else was. I have been bullied ever since I can remember, until I gained personal confidence and was determined to

Ten years pass. He can still recall the crème blush coloring of his lover’s cheeks and the tapered point of her nose. He can recall the ringing vibrato of her laugh and the way a shrill, yet violent sneeze would wrack her body. Fifty years. He knows she had auburn hair and olive skin, but what color were her eyes? Gray like an oncoming tempest or a deep ochre married with lighter hues. One hundred years. His grandchildren stamp their fingerprints on the glass of the frame with her photo in it. Their mother wrenches the portrait out of their pudgy hands with a sigh, lost in the memories of twirling around on the kitchen tile to the soundtrack of the woman’s hums. Two hundred years. Her image is engulfed in the flames of a roaring blaze and lost

As April walked into the bunker she realized something was different about that day. Sure it appeared the same, but the air had a different feeling. She realized it was electric, and it wasn’t because of the Biff.

In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is portrayed as a tragic hero. He believes he can amend the Roman Empire by killing Caesar and granting Romans freedom from a potential monarchy. Cassius comes to Brutus with intentions of obviating Caesar from the throne. At first, Brutus is against this. Then, Cassius changes his mind by lying to him and persuading him with false letters supposedly from other Romans. Ultimately, Brutus is the tragic hero because his actions cause him to lose all superior status; they also land him on a path toward his downfall and his death. Brutus has severe flaws, he loses power and respect, and his readers show sympathy for him in the end.

In 1986, at the ripe age of 6, I was given the news that a

The story of The Guest is about Daru, a lonely schoolteacher in Camus’ boyhood home of Algeria. Daru likes living in solitude, but he must learn to recognize that choices are unavoidable and that his choices matter. The story takes place in the middle of the nineteenth century when Algeria is still a land full of conflict between the oppressed Algerian people and their French colonial rulers. At the beginning of the story the French send the gendarme, Balducci to Daru with an Arab convicted of murder. Through Balducci the prisoner comes under the charge of

A tragedy can be described and executed in many ways, whether it is through cinema, television or a play for theatre, as long as it has a solemn kind of ending. It is characterized as a very sad event, action, or experience for a certain character in the piece. According to Aristotle’s “Poetics,” a tragedy needs six elements, a plot, character, language, thought, spectacle, and melody, as in many dramas do, but the organization of the plot is how tragedy is brought about. (747) The plot – is the end for which a tragedy exists, and the end or purpose is the most important thing of all. (748)

I could hear my heart pounding in my chest as I forced my legs to continue running. I had no idea where I was running to. All I knew was I was running away from the people trying to kill me for being something that up until recently I didn’t know I was. I wanted so badly to just give up and stop running. My chest hurt and it felt like at any moment my legs were going to give out on me. However, part of me didn’t want it to end like this. A whole new world had opened up to me and I was so close to discovering the truth about my heritage and about my family. With a deep breath, I mustered up all the energy I had left, turned around and faced my fears. I closed my eyes and with both my hands raised imagined the trees standing before me falling

In English literature, William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest poet and a play writer. He wrote different kinds of plays which involved comedy, history, romance, and tragedy. Macbeth is one of the plays by Shakespeare about tragedy and how a person is consumed by this own thoughts and deeds. In this play, Shakespeare, through Macbeth, shows the commotion of both physical and mental effects of those who seek power and things a person is willing to do in order to achieve those goals. Due to the wrong doings of Macbeth and his wife, they both end up being death at the end of the play. The play clearly shows the craftiness of Shakespeare through demonstration of tragedy, darkness and deception.

A hero is someone who does little things that means a lot to other people and make differences around the world daily. Malala Yousafzai a 14 year old girl who got shot in the head by a taliban because she wanted to go to school. After she succeeded to live from the bullet, that did not stop her from wanting to help other girls around the world to get what they wanted more then anything. Education. Education is critical in america to get get a job to make a living, its a normal thing to go to school in America. Not everywhere is education that easy to get that is why still wanting to make a change since what she went through is amazing Doodle, Margot