There are two people that I find are heroic. There is one in each book I have read. The two characters Telemachus and Norman Bowker. Both characters show heroism. They are alike in a certain way. They show heroism by being fighters, never give up, and being courageous in anyway they could be.

Literature is full of characters that can be heroic. The first book, "The Odyssey" is an epic poem written by Homer, where it takes place in Ancient Greece, where a character named Telemachus shows heroism by never giving up. Him not giving shows heroism because. Even when times were rough and people told him that his father was no longer alive; Telemachus did not just forget about his father and live his life. No! Telemachus ignored what everyone has said and did not stop his search for his father. He could have moved on but he would not let anyone take advantage, he was to finish what he has started.

A quote that shows Telemachus is heroic is when he says, should not have sorrowed so over his dying if he had gone down among his companions in the land of the Trojans, or in the arms of his friends, after he had wound up the fighting. So all the Achaians would have heaped a grave mound over him, and he would have won great fame for himself and his son hereafter. But now ingloriously …show more content…
The second book, "The Things They Carried" a fiction about war, written by Tim O' Brien, where it takes place in Vietnam, where a character named Norman Bowker shows heroism by trying to make his father proud. By Norman him trying to make his father proud is being heroic because he wants to win a metal to show to his father. The metal makes him heroic because to earn it he has to be seen doing something outstanding and the courageous and outstanding thing that Norman had to do was save his friend. He did not receive the metal but by him trying so he would make his father proud is what makes him