Thurs. Sept. 26 Heroes cont.

Today, we discussed the video we watched yesterday and the short story we read earlier. Our discussion centred around what a hero is. What we came up with is that a hero does something outside of what is expected and that perspective matters a lot on whether one is seen as a hero or not. To aid in the discussion, I read two excerpts from the novel Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. I read pages 52-55 (his turning his mother in for a crime), and pages 92-93 (saving a woman from an assault). Since the protagonist in both cases is the same person and, in both cases is doing something that could be considered heroic depending on the perspective of an outsider, they represent the sides of personality and the ability to act in various ways (positive or negative).