Historical and Modern day heroes

Morgan McCrady

Ms. Sweezey

English II

September 26, 2012

                                       Modern heroes and historical heroes

     Modern day heroes and historical heroes are both alike and different. A modern day hero does good

deeds for his city without being asked. A historical hero took journeys away from his own city to help

other places.   They both always end up “saving the day”.

       Modern day heroes have more human characteristics and their journey involves more everyday life

situations. Modern heroes are very strong and rarely get defeated by the enemy. But they always end

up saving the victim and getting them back safe. They face challenges such as who they fight, now a days

other enemies have better weapons, and better fighting skills.

    Historical heroes are older and more ancient, obviously. They are also strong like modern day heroes.

But they save people while they are away.  Back then there enemies didn’t have weapons, they only had

to worry about people being skilled in fighting. Historical heroes also fight for their race more than just a

certain victim.

    In the end, historical heroes changed into modern day heroes in good ways. They both take action to

help others. They always save the day and risk their lives just to help others.

once upon a time

  Once upon a time there was a princess name Olivia. She grew up in a huge castle with her dad and unfortunatly, a step mom and 2 step sisters. Her mother died from a flu that went around the village a few years ago. Every Saturday Olivia visits her mothers grave and puts a new set of flowers. Today is monday, and from 8am to 3pm she is homeschooled by a private tutor. Olivia always gets good grades and is always respectful. Her teacher reminds her that the ball is right around the corner, and she needs to prepare. The following day Olivia finds a dress to wear with the perfect pair of shoes. Then she goes to dinner with her dad, step mom and both step sisters. In the middle of dinner her step sister, Janice "accidently" spills juice on her and like usual Olivia doesnt get mad in front of her dad and goes straight upstairs to clean up. Olivia cries soflty into her pillow that night and wishes her mom was still here. The next day is the ball and once Olivia arrives she instantly spots a gentleman named Nick. The whole night she hopes he will ask her to dance and to her surprise he did. They danced the rest of the night and had an instant connection. Olivia wakes up to flowers next to her bed and wonders who they are from. She reads the card " Good morning beautiful -Nick". She is so happy, she wishes her mother was her so she could share the excitement. She decides to take the flowers to her mothers grave. As shes places them down she hears a noise coming from the woods but ignores it. All of a sudden two men grab her by the arms and put her into a van. They take her to a dark place, like a cave. They tell her they are holding her for randsom. Her father wakes up with a note on the side of his bed also " We have your daughter, give us 1 million dollars to get her back". The dad freaks out, gets up instantly and runs downstairs to the maid and tells her to tell the village what has happened. When Nick hears the news he sets off on a journey to find her and get her back safe. He climbs through the woods and looks through caves. He finds a cave that has a lit fire inside, he found her! He waits till everyone is asleep then sneaks into the cave and gently wakes her up and then they sneak out quitley. When they arrive back at the castle her dad is so happy, he falls to his knees ad thanks Nick. Nick and Olivia end up spending alot of time together after this. They fall in love and get married and live happily ever after.

                The end.

Archetype

   An archetype is a universal symbolic pattern. Some major ones are, The Shadow, The Anima, The Syzygy, and The Self. Each archetype represents something different, like The Anima represents soul. And The Self represents Human self and divine self, aslo spirits.

   A common example that everyone seems to know, is the movie batman. In the movie bats are represented a symbol. They symbolize his fear for them, which he finally overcomes. The bats are important to the movie because they symbolize the icon for batman.