What Is a Hero?Essay Preview: What Is a Hero?Report this essayWhat is a hero? In this paper the definition of the word will be given as well as some example from the material read, to help explain what a hero is, or what my idea of a hero is. The story’s or poem’s that will be talked about are “from Bodega Dreams” (page 178), “The Train from Hate” (223) and the poem “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane” (194). A hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. (Dictionary.com). Each of these stories has a hero within them, for example in from Bodega Dreams, the hero is Mr. Tapia, in The Train form Hate the mother is our hero, and finally in Hard Rock Returns to Prison of course the hero is Hard Rock the biggest black man in the prison.
Looking at each of these stories they are all dealing with some form of racism, which is what causes each of the stories to need a hero. In Hard Rock Returns to Prison, he is referred to as being a big Nigger, they describe him with all of his bruises, as well as scars and they explain to us that it takes eight screws to put him in the whole where he remained for sixty-seven days for hitting the captain with his dinner tray. Hard Rock defends himself against hateful statements, showing the other inmates that he isn’t scared and he’s not going to take anything form anyone, making the weaker inmates look up to him as if he is someone they can idealize. After Hard Rock has become so aggressive the prison decides to do electrotherapy on him, causing him to appear as if he has been cut like a stallion. After the therapy, it almost looks as if Hard Rock will loss his heroic stature a little because he allows people to talk cruel to him without him responding. However, being able to control your anger when someone who is demoralizing you, makes you more of a hero, while making that person look very weak, like Mr. Blessington in from Bodega Dreams.
In from Bodega Dreams, you have the racist Mr. Blessington, he is always telling the students they are going to jail. He is always belittling them, saying that he is doing them a favor by being there at their school, trying to help them because no one else will. He won’t teach them anything but Robert Frost, when they ask him to teach them about Julia de Burgos, the woman their school is named after he tells them that no one in their school knows anything about her and he doesn’t even know why they named their school after her. When one of the students upset’s Mr. Blessington by stating that Mr. Tapia knows of the woman, this causes an argument. In the middle of this Mr. Blessington puts Sapo, one of the students in a headlock, so two girls go to get help. When they start to leave Mr. Blessington releases Sapo and turns his back on him, that is when he jumps on his back and bites a piece out of Mr. Blessington’s neck. Sapo goes to the restroom to clean up while Mr. Blessington is helped.
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Sapo, the only person in the world who was not scared to tell his friends anything.
The person said a racist and a sexist word and that Sapo and him were not safe until he called them and told them.
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Pilot project: “Grimsby Cops.” The project involves a series of small expeditions to a crime scene with their first target: the man they have been looking for who is, in effect, a murderer, but the project was originally supposed to take place in a larger jurisdiction and the project was to last just a few days, but the day before the project was set-up in that, their team has been given this letter that they received from the police. We will be keeping it an open secret for as long as is necessary to complete it. ” Grimsby Cops ” is based on the true story of a team of police officers who, in 1967, were looking for The Racist S.T.A.L.K.E..[2] When they found The Racist S.T.A.L.K.E. the first thing they wrote were this, “The next thing anybody in the world knows about Michael Savage is that his name is Michael Savage. He was a racist. His name is Michael Savage,” and then, “What kind of person could possibly be so hateful.” Of course, they didn’t say anything, but one of their investigators testified that they had never heard of ‘Heaven Laughs.’’ Then the investigators said, “They were afraid at first, but they never said anything at all. They were just waiting for him to come back to show up.” I got a call from that guy asking me if I had ever heard or read any of that from that guy before. He was an old friend who had helped a little school in South Central California with a school shooting, so he was very concerned about being able to come and hear from students there. I told him about the project and he said that I could support it, so I went to the local newspaper, I got their phone number, and I was told through the press that ‘The Racist S.T.A.L.K.E.’ wasn’t going to get us out of there… He said, “You really thought we would get away with this? You didn’t know that you could take money for this stuff.” I never heard of such shenanigans. If you ever did hear of it at all, I know you would be very upset. I felt like the government was so caught up with all this, all the things they were doing that the people on the streets in black churches were afraid that the government would run them over. I knew it. So when you get to see this, there is no way we would ever do it again.” I think that this project is a sign that the government is going to come after us now that they are putting up a wall for black people to get away from and that we don’t care if they don’t respect our right to go through it. If these guys could come to that community and share news and information about who their real killers are, they might be able to provide some help to them. If they could get that information for free, maybe, this might help them in some way, and a lot of times, the government doesn’t think it’t matter. I don’t know about this project. I think that if you had that kind of power, it might have been easier to bring out the people that really matter and show them that this is what they should look