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    baptized, it inspired me to be a better person. I am seeking to dedicate my life to Christ, just like my hero. My brother impacted me emotionally in a good way, because by making me a better person, has emotionally affected me to want to be better. Heroes can be anyone, and everything, with some

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    For this hero analysis, I chose to study Moana, the protagonist of the Disney film, Moana. The story follows two storylines, Moana’s, which is about her transition from childhood to adulthood, and Maui’s which follows his comeback from his ruined hero position. Moana is the daughter of the chief of Motunui. From the start, Moana is taught to be a proper leader of her tribe and is made to follow her father’s footsteps. Although she loves her village and her people, she craves to be by the sea and

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    family, set on by their ancestors who in the past during times of war, became well known archers of amazing skill and strength, some even becoming the personal archer of their lord. Though war was over and the combat archer was no longer needed. But his ancestors recognized war was recurring, not knowing when or where, but it would come again. So Their ancestor would teach and train their children in the ways of the bow and the reality of war, putting them through trial as hunters. This has been true for

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    An anti-hero in the most common protagonist in the genre of noir who mostly has some negative qualities like aggressiveness and dishonesty, also according to the Wikipedia, “An anti-hero is a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality.” By the definition and reading through James M. Cain’s novel Double Indemnity, we are sure that Walter Huff in this book is the anti-hero, because of his ruthless murder. For example, Walter first uses his knowledge

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    common: their main characters were Byronic heroes. Hamlet from Hamlet and Walter White from Breaking Bad display the characteristics of an ultimate antihero. They are Byronic heroes because each has a troubled backstory, each is an anti hero, both are criminals, have high intelligence and useful skills, and have deep-rooted psychological and emotional issues. Each character had to experience their own trauma to which led them to become the Byronic heroes that they are. Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet

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    An anti-hero can be defined as a character with a pivotal role in a story and possess traits contrasted with those of a traditional hero. While the traditional heroic character is brave, strong, and seems to have no flaws, anti-hero character can be clumsy, unsolicited foolish, is often the embodiment of ineptitude or bad luck and is an amalgamation of both good and evil. An anti-heroic character in a story can display a wide variety of traits while still fitting in the anti-hero role. Earnes and

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    the sheep” (Eastwood). In other words, sheep depend on the protection of others to stay alive. The wolves are the criminals who try to harm the dependent people. And the sheepdog is simply… the heroes. Of all the incredible

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    The battle continued to wage on back and forth with Isaac and Ajax trading blows for blows. They manage to gain some distance between them. Even with his newly perfected power, Ajax still found the fight to be still difficult. Isaac exhaled, watching the forest fire burn brightly in the distance. Ajax looked in the direction of the forest fire, worrying about how Sylvia for a moment. He knew what she was capable of, but the fire became intense. Turning his attention back to Isaac, they continued

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    In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the author introduces the naive protagonist Dorian Gray as he undergoes rapid transformation to seek self-indulgence through hedonism. Throughout the course of the novel, he demonstrates his allegiance to his beauty and seals his conscience in the form of a painting as to never expose the desecration of his soul to society. Oscar Wilde manipulates allusion, pessimistic diction, and subtle imagery to manifest Dorian’s perpetual fear of his youthful deterioration

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    Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville is tragic and is written in the mode of realism. The short story starts off with the narrator, who is a lawyer at the Wall Street in New York, describing the other workers or scriveners working at the lawyer’s office at the time. The three characters are Turkey, Nippers, and Gingernut. Turkey works well in the morning and Nippers during the night. Gingernut is just an errand boy. Then the lawyer starts describing Bartleby as “A motionless young man one morning

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