I was at my house and my phone rings and it is my brother’s friend. He had got in a car crash because he didn’t see that there was a curve until it was too late. The driver had got his head put in the front windshield and the passenger hit the roof which made his eye have a medium size cut. In hero literature, authors use heroes to symbolize freedom combined with details that describe power corrupts which within the hero genre allow readers to experience birth and ultimately consider the pattern. First, I believe that a hero has to be someone who goes out of his or her name to help or save someone that they know or even don’t know because I always think of someone who walks up to someone who is homeless and gives them something to eat or even some money. The other thing that I think of would be when you see someone in the hall is having trouble and have dropped their things and you go help them pick it up. Second, in the story The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood is the hero because he shows how he is overpowering the villain. Robin Hood personifies the spring because he talks about it being spring time a lot. Robin Hood rose above the villain once he started to become famous. This story inspires us to rise above the common person and defeat evil because we see that someone else could do it so we have an example of how to overcome the “evil” in our life.
Third, I think that Sundiata personifies a coin at the tip of a mountain because if you hit it at all it will fall down. The only way that you can avoid this is to help him until he is satisfied and has let himself be more lenient with how he reacts too many things. Sundiata personifies Goth to show his own selfish desire for racial greatness. Throughout the story Niane uses the strength and weaknesses of his characters to show the importance of destiny and fate. The character that holds his name to the story, Sundiata, is the son of King Maghan Kon Kata and the “buffalo” woman. Sundiata was prophesized to be a great leader and to save the people of Mali. Sundiata must go through a series of tests and trials, before fulfilling his destiny and taking throne of Mali. Though Sundiata road to greatness he had to deal with overcoming many different obstacles. Such as him being disable until the age of seven. He also had to deal with his father’s spiteful first wife and the Mali people. In conclusion, when I read Sundiata and saw robin hood I thought of how people in my life have done similar things to me not only to help me out but also ways that people have went against me and used things around me to hurt me physically and mentally. I don’t like to think about these things but sometimes these things just have to happen. Christopher reeve, an actor, once said “A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.” I think this means that they might be in doubt but they are still going to try their best to become the bigger person. An example of this is when a kid gets hurt and you are the doctor you might not know exactly what to do but you aren’t going to tell that kid that because you know that would just make them worry and you know that will only make the situation worse.