Tom Shonagon: A Mythic Hero

Tom was still on the couch, the light from the television illuminating his pale, tear-stained face. He lay on his side, his body pulled into the fetal position with his hands tucked between his thighs and his lackluster eyes staring blankly at the flickering screen. He was the very picture of wretchedness; a lost soul whose life was a litany of physical pain and psychological suffering.

He was standing on the ledge and was frozen, not knowing what to do. He was thinking, thinking about falling. He stood there frightened. His mind was in a whirl, thinking about what he would lose if he fell; his wife, the family that he could have, his life, his friends, his wonderful job, he would lose all of it. Then he thought about falling. Would it be so bad? His adrenaline went up as he thought about this. Tom’s mind went off again thinking about leaving this world, the life he would leave. His mind pushed everything he loved away and just thought about falling, falling, falling. The wind in his face, the weird feeling in his stomach that he loved, and the anticipation of hitting the ground. He

Tom grabs a pick handle and clubs one of the officers to death before hastily

A few days later, Peewee, Perry, and a few other soldiers are sent out in a patrol to sweep out Vîet Công positions on a hill that overlooks the American camp. The patrol that is sent out is so badly organized that when it meets a Vîet Công patrol, the entire unit falls apart and Peewee and Perry find themselves on the hill, with none of their comrades in sight. Peewee and Perry hear something and hide in a small cave, hoping to evade capture. A Vîet Công soldier stands above looking around for the American servicemen. Peewee and Perry grab the enemy soldier, and kill him, to make sure that he does not give away their position. Peewee and Perry then try to get back to camp, but Peewee is wounded as a Vîet Công soldier finds them. A few hours later, Peewee and Perry make it back to camp and Peewee is

Young had sprinted from cover with his head down, searching the grounds for the injured to bring back to safety. “I’m here to take you back,” he said as he noticed a bullet hole surrounded by blood dead center in Cortright’s back. Cortright was paralyzed from the hips down and incapable of helping himself away. Considered one of the more diminutive members of Charlie Company, Young lay on the ground and put Cortright on his back. They crawled all the way to safety, and Young’s actions saved the life of a man who minutes before was wondering how he would

He grabbed the yellow paper and put it in his mouth, holding onto it with his teeth. He got to his window and it was closed, there was no way to open it from the outside. As he struggled to hold on he forgot that he had the sheet in his mouth, he removed it and crushed it into the side of his pocket. Tom had to brainstorm ideas on how he could get in, he realized the only way was to break the window. He tried breaking the window with the palm of his hand, his shoe, and a half dollar. He even tried to signal people with lighting up some paper he had in his pocket and dropping coins, but no one saw him in the dark night. He realized that he had wasted his life on his job, and all the time he has been away from Clare. Clare gave him the strength to keep holding on to the bars and to break the window. He made a fist and yelled “CLARE” as he struck the window. He broke the window and fell on his apartment floor, he got up and left his yellow sheet on his desk with a pencil on top. As he walked out his apartment to catch up with Clare at the movies the yellow sheet slipped out through the window again. Tom laughed and closed the

After John was jumped he wanted all 6 people to pay for everything they have done. So he got his revenge, Mr.McCallister was preparing for the noble war against everyone in his head. He was being told by the “round ones” to give what they deserve, he agreed. He put a trench coat on that was dark as night on, painted his face with a deep blood red with white streaks running down his face, before he left he chanted to the round ones, “ They will die, they will die!!!” over and over again. John took a straight razor to his wrist and cut vertically until the blood dripped down the 12 gauge. He put the gun in his coat and left for school. In John’s mind only 6 needed to pay for what they have done but the voices said everyone, he only had 9 rounds to make them pay. He walked to white pearly gates of SummerVeiw high school, walked in and started chanting under his breathe, “THEY WILL DIE!!!” over and over again. John immediately spotted one of the guys who jumped him, he fired one shot in landed right in the boys chest, there was a loud scream, John just kept walking. Then he heard two loud bangs and turns around then sees the officer that had rescued him from the fire he started all those years ago, John with no hold quick draws the gun and fire three shots into the officer, blood goes everywhere. He noticed that he had a wound in his right thigh just missing a major artery. So he decided to walk to the clinic and

Boom it was a heart and a liver. It wasn't just important muscles, it was his wifes. She died trying to make a deal with old scratch. Tom was not much affected by her disappearance, he was more so relieved, but also pissed off for the fact that he lost his

“Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed” – Bob Riley. This quote explains to us that heroes emerge out of society and out of their fears, they overcome the hard times and become great human beings, so what are heroes? Why are they important to their society? And what do they go through to achieve that name?

He went back to wake up Dill but he wasn't their laying down in bed so Tom got even curious about where Dill had of gone. So he went off to find where Dill went and he found Dill but in a corner crying and shaking he didn't know what to do Tom told him to get up and they would find wat happen to all the people in the hospital .But first they would have to find themselves some clothing to wear. They walked out the next day and it was cloudy and nobody in sight so walk all the way home to find nobody but their homes were destroyed. They were scared that their home and family could be dyed. They found a car and traveled around the whole city and found nobody until they found a guy walking they yelled and he continued to walk they stopped next to him and Dill touched the guy on his shoulder he was not human so the drived away and they talked about what that guy was because he was not human . So they would called that thing a Zombie because they didn't talked and they only walked slow and fragile. So they went on until their car ran out on gas in their car. They walked for days,weeks until they found a guy finding supplies for his group in the city. Tom asked the guy to stopped he ran because he didn't know them until he got tired so Tom told the guy that they wouldn't hurt him that they didn't know what happen to the

The Western genre can be a variety of works, including texts and films, which are set in the American Old West during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This genre primarily focuses on the life of a cowboy with gunfights, a good guy and a bad guy, and the usually ending of riding off into the sunset. The common misconception that is shown throughout the Western genre is that the male characters are always the hero, whereas the female characters are impediments and less valuable. This relates to Susan Lee Johnson’s quote on how the Western genre always portrays One Big Myth and One True Hero. She states that “Much is held in abeyance when {the} impulse to find One Big Myth and to indentify its One True Hero is indulged.” Johnson

A possible theme for Oedipus the King by Sophocles is that one’s blindness can hide the inevitability that is his destiny. Oedipus is in this situation. He struggles to escape his fate: killing his father and marrying his mother and believes he is successful. Sophocles believes that the gpds control one’s destiny and the inevitability that a person will do what is destined despite there hero’s intentions.Oedipus represent the standards of a true tragic hero: he is well known, basically good, his punishment is out of proportion compared to his crime, the audience at some point feels sorrow and pity for him, and Oedipus has a tragic flaw. During the whole story Oedipus thinks that he may be able to change his fate a live life how he wants but he falls to that which is his destiny.For these reason Oedipus is truly an example of a tragic hero and is unable to avoid his tragic fate.

Before lunch, Dr. Armstrong finds the general dead of a blow to the head. The guests meet together and assume that one of them is the killer, considering they have looked about the island for any one person who might inhabit it. The tiring long day soon sends them to bed.

Jimmy agreed and he was taken to a facility in the middle of nowhere and was told this is where he would have to show his true strength. At the drop of a pin men started to come out with guns and lasers all pointing at him ready to fire. Standing there, jimmy takes a step back and all at once sends a beam of lighting at the man and they begin to open fire upon him. One after another jimmy takes man after man out to save himself and as soon as the last guy dropped to the ground, the man in the black suit showed up to guide him to a nice dinner to recover. The man looks upon jimmy and speaks with confidence. “You have done well and can return back home”

Christopher was a boy who was born in a rich East Coast family. He graduated from one of the best universities in the United States. However, he wasn’t content with his life and didn’t know what the truth about his existence was. Therefore, he decided to abandon his family and society to find his sincere self, which was his vital target. He thought that he wasn’t the person that he was supposed to be. Clearly, he was ready to sacrifice himself to find his original self and his true being. He went on a long journey that ended in Alaska. After living alone for 112 days, he died due to starvation. Life is a gift which is given by God. In life, we all have some responsibilities to implement, such as worshiping, serving our parents, and serving and protecting our countries, which are holy tasks. We all encounter hardships and crises. Nevertheless, Christopher ignored all of these responsibilities and pursued his selfish thought. Therefore, I believe that he was surely foolish, but I also believe Chris was a hero in some ways and a fool. Through him we can all learn about ourselves and we can take from his experience and the outcome of that experience to base our own judgement of what we should do if we are ever in that situation where we need to find ourselves and separate from society for a while. He is a hero because he inspired a mass amount of people indirectly with his idea for the end to hunger, he has inspired many people to contribute to the effort to end hunger but is