No Ordinary Hero Analysis

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Butler Yeats’ “The Song of Wandering Aengus” and George Orwell’s 1984, each literature piece exemplifies all of the connections in Joseph Campbell’s 17 Stages of a Hero’s Journey in order to demonstrate the changes in the character’s development and the motivation behind their transformation.

In the book “Hero” by Perry Moore, Thom Creed the main character, is a high school basketball star who struggles in finding his desire, love and the truth about his future. Though, there are many secrets that he is hiding, he then discovers that by facing his own insecurity, he would be able to find his happiness. Hal Creed, Thom’s father has always been supportive of Thom. He would attend most of Thom’s basketball games and cheer him on. However, Thom wasn’t the only keeping secrets, one of his biggest secrets would be him being gay. On the other hand, Hal is in pain after what happened to him in the past, his wife’s disappearance. This made him not really ready to talk about his past and not allowing Thom to speak or even play with superhero figures. Which then comes

This Essay is to analyze the essay of Joe Nocera. The essay is talking about the deaths that have happened on the Metropolitan Subway system in New York City. Nocera explains that multiple people have fallen onto the train tracks over the years. Yet whether heavily crowded or people being almost nonexistent on the platform negated whether responsibility when the accidents happened should be placed upon the heads of those nearest to the people.

As time goes on and new generations come about, many of the ideals of former generations seem to become irrelevant. Scott LaBarge, a professor of philosophy, elaborates on this idea and others in his essay. “Why Heroes Are Important” is LaBarge’s pursuit to persuade others of his idea of heroes in today’s society. He claims that many of our youth do not know what a proper hero is and that former generations should be educating them. LaBarge begins his persuasion by describing his personal experience and credibility; then, he briefly describes the history of heroes to tie in his opinion on the definition; finally, he uses Aristotle’s idea of Kairos to explain how his opinion proves true according to current events.

The movie I watched for my critique was called No Ordinary Hero. In this movie there were two characters who had a disability. The disability that they had was being deaf. Jacob, an eight year old boy, is struggling in school, mostly because he cannot hear the lectures being given by his teacher. Tony, a deaf television star, has a goal of inspiring the hearing impaired as well as those of us who can hear. Throughout the movie the two characters go through a series of obstacles but they are always able to overcome them.

When an individual experiences loss or death of something dear, it usually forces them on to leave the familiarity of their world in pursuit of something greater. In The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami, Sripathi Rao begins his Hero’s Journey when he is notified of the death of his daughter. During the call from Dr. Sunderraj, Sripathi is noticeably shocked by the events that have taken place overseas and is struggling to comprehend everything. As the news unfolds, he struggles with his internal conflicts of regret, guilt and even confusion. The regret of ignoring Maya and “argu[ing] with the voices that grew louder and louder in his head” that were criticizing his past actions work in unison to show the changes to his character brought by crossing

A hero is born is how every story starts with the same story, climax, and ending, but with this specific story this hero wasn’t born he was created. Throughout the book and the cases being fought, Bryan Stevenson is the hero; the man in quest of justice. His motive and moral code is defending the innocents and protecting their lives within the corrupt justice system. With each case, he begins to see what he is capable of and how he holds the lives of these people. Such examples would be the puritans, acknowledging their sins and trying to be redeemed by God. However, finding redemption comes with difficulties in their path to gain their redemption. Although, for Bryan Stevenson he is trying to find the innocence in these felons on death

Small or big, everything we do in life is part of our journey. Reg Harris’ “The Hero’s Journey” describes the voyage one takes throughout life to grow and change as a person. He breaks the journey down into eight steps leading to the return. It starts out as a goal that isn’t always easy to reach, one goes through hardship and personal doubts only to succeed and become a better person. An example of this journey can be found in the movie, Troy through the character Achilles. Achilles is a strong fearless warrior in the movie, Troy who goes through “The Hero’s Journey” and ends up with a change of heart.

‘No one in the novel can actually be seen as a hero.’ To what extent do you agree?

Every story includes structural aspects or phases in fantasies, movies and legends. These stages arrange the hero’s special journey, which are the various phases that the hero has to go through to complete his task. In the beginning, the hero always starts off in the Ordinary World. To begin, The Ordinary Word is the hero’s safe haven, this stage allows the readers to get to know the hero’s distinctive characteristics. Furthermore, The Call To Adventure introduces a mission that must be done. In other words, this phase sets the hero’s new journey. On the other hand, the hero himself can also turn down the expedition due to distress and insecurities. This stage is called, Refusal of the call where the hero is not willing to make changes. Once

I enjoyed Lobby Hero. Although, I like Michael Cera so, I may be somewhat biased. The show asks you to examine many ethical questions. It makes you think about what you put first. Should family go above justice and truth? Should you tell the truth, even if it costs you your job or compromises your family dynamic? Lobby Hero creates many issues that have no definitive answer. There is no set terms of black and white and it is interesting to see characters’ ideas and values come out of their discussions. I liked that it encouraged the audience to think for themselves by not really resolving any of the issues or explicitly showing who they thought was right. In class, many people brought up good points that Dawn was very loud and a somewhat annoying.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground (1864/2008) comes across as a diary penned by a self-described “spiteful” and “unattractive” anonymous narrator (p. 7). The narrator’s own self-loathing characterized by self-alienation is so obvious, that he is often referred to by critics as the Underground Man (Frank 1961, p. 1). Yet this Underground Man is the central character of Dostoyevsky’s novel and represents a subversion of the typical courageous hero. In this regard, the Underground man is an anti-hero, since as a protagonist he not only challenges the typical literary version of a hero, but also challenges conventional thinking (Brombert 1999, p. 1).

There are two benefits of a hero that surprised me. First was heroes heal are psychic wounds. The article states that “The first stories told were no doubt tales of heroes and heroic action, and these tales were a salve for people's psychological wounds,” which was very interesting to me because I never thought of heroic stories in this kind of point of view. I always thought that heroes are there to give us hopes in our lives and calm our fears, but it looks like heroes can heal our damaged bodies. Another benefit that surprised me was that heroes nourish our connections with other people. The article states that “storytelling is a community-building activity.” I think that is true because by telling a story and sharing your feeling, views,

The director did a fantastic job writing this film. All of the points he wanted to get to the audience, I feel did. The actor, Sean Paul, did a wonderful job impersonating someone with a developmental disability. The director’s goal was to have people that were his targeted audience, try and think about what they take for granted and show that people need love and support just as much as anyone else that is important to them. People never know what other stories other people have and are going through. It is always nice to be kind and to be a supportive human being.

Zhang Yimou’s thrilling film Hero is both an emotional and exhilarating experience. Hero combines the use of action-packed scenes as well as a beautiful love story. Nameless, Broken Sword and Flying Snow, the main characters, team up to eventually kill the King of Qin who had murdered a number of people with the Qin army including both Flying Snow and Nameless’s father. Although the Qin army is an enemy of Broken Sword and Flying Snow’s people, it is a personal issue to assassinate the king. Throughout the film the audience is exposed to the developing love that forms between Broken Sword and Flying Snow. While their love unfolds, many battles of combat arise between enemies and allies. When Nameless joins Broken Sword and Flying Snow,