One reoccurring theme in the past books we've read is what constitutes a hero, is it that muscle clad hero that saves the damsel or just a person who helps others? In Beowulf, our hero Beowulf is a strong famed slayer of monsters who sacrificed his life to fight a dragon for honor. So is a hero someone who does things with honor? Beowulf's version of a hero is a strong man who fights with honor and this is what the basic form of a hero is. Or can a hero be The Narrator in The Invisible Man who speaks out against injustice in a peaceful way, using his words to help the people realize their problems. The Narrator uses his words not to defeat physical monsters but the "monsters" within our society and this also constitutes a hero. In our society we need heroes, they are the people who we aspire to be. Our heroes are people with powers that dress up in costumes and fight evil and this is what our society's children dress up as for Halloween, we in our society use heroes to guide us. Our heroes teach us the best of both worlds, to be strong like Beowulf but to be peaceful like The Narrator, “Believe me when I say I wish that violence wasn't necessary. But violence is the price we pay to accomplish a greater good, as heroes we choose to protect that good with our lives," this quote by Superman sums up our society's heroes perfectly.
In my opinion a hero is someone who does anything for others that helps them. To me a hero doesn't need to save the day but they just have to be someone that helps another get by with their day. Evil doesn't have to be a giant robot hell-bent on destroying the world, it can be a kid that lost his dog and the hero is the person who helps him look for it. Or a hero can be a the person who cheers someone up when they're down. Of course not all people who help others with small things are not a big of a hero as Beowulf or Abraham Lincoln but to me they are heroes all the same. Any person who helps people and does it selflessly is a hero to me.
