Who is Your hero?

[ed_olsen_gene]

Who is your hero and why... with all of the stories, plays, sonnets, and legends out there who is your hero, explain what they do to be considered a hero..

[vili]

You mean "hero" as in "a writer I really like" or as in "the character who I think is the greatest of them all"? Or something else? Since we are in the poetry forums, I suppose only poems (or poets?) are counted in?

[blacksheep]

literature hero, either douglass adams who made the absurdadies of really hard mathematical/physical concepts humerous and easy to grasp for not so bright readers like myself. it was one of the books that kind of got me interested in the absurdadies of really hard mathematical/physical concepts. i usually hate science fiction. and hitchhiker's guide is my second fav book. suprising...
another literature hero - samual beckett. i think it might be because 3 different people told me that my style of writing (waay back in junior high when i wrote plays) was similar to that of sammy beckett's. i had never heard of him then. and then i read waiting for godot (on onlinelit.com and decided that he's cool.

ok...
since this is the general chat section, Alan turing is a non lit related hero.
he made the first blueprint of a modern computer, did stuff with computer science, helped crack the German Enigma code for the british during WWII, was an AWESOME olympic quality marathon runner, and sadly was gay and persecuted for being gay by the british goverment which he had helped so much. he commited suicide because of it.
why? cause im a computer fanatic and i wanna run fast and his life/death is a powerful story and im rainbow. (mostly green but we can pretend that I'm rainbow)

[underground]

my mommy.

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[miss tenderness]

I remmebr I started a thread having the same title!

[ed_olsen_gene]

I know thats where i recieved my inspiration..

[Laindessiel]

My heroes: Mom and Dad and sibs and Uncle Virg and Uncle Pen...

All very worthy of the honor.

[Pendragon]

In the way of literature heroes, I suppose my first were Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, but since I'm partial to the old pulp magazines, there The Shadow takes the prize. I also liked Lee Falk's Phantom, The Ghost Who Walks, from the old newspaper dailies. Comic books: Batman, out and away, from DC; Spiderman, from Marvel, and Hellboy from Dark Horse. Biblically, there’s David and Job, but Jesus above them all. Here, everyone is a hero to me. They stand for what they believe, they share laughter and grief, we become a family, a support group, friends, writing coaches and critics, whatever is needed, someone is brave enough to supply. LitNet is a group of ordinary people made heroes by their unwavering desire to help each other. :thumbs_u

[Virgil]

I remmebr I started a thread having the same title!

You did Taleen. Here is that thread for others to read if you're interested:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...highlight=hero

I explained why Hector from Homer's The Illiad (on post #15) was one of my fictional heros.

[SleepyWitch]

hm, I know I've posted before and I'm repeating myself, but in view of yesterday's entertaining grammar lesson my hero still is and will always be my fave linguistics tutor

[dramasnot6]

I have so many heros. To me a hero is someone who isnt put on a pedastool, embodying all that is wonderful and ideal for a person. It is someone who realizes who they are, faults included, and uses what they have to the best of their advantage. Someone is in touch enough with themselves to branch out of the narcicistic tendicies so many develop and get some grasp of the whole picture of humanity. Who i am a fan of is not neccesarily my hero. I am a fan of Shakespeare, Kafka, Austen, Viivaldi, Woody Allen....just countless artists, writers, actors, and muscians of all kinds. But heros are the type you must admire and somewhat dislike at times.With great acceptance and courage, comes both admiration and resentment. The proportion of both depending on the person. Heroism is acknowledging everyone else but not altering yourself for anything they believe of you only for the sake of others. I consider many people her on LitNet to be heroes. I have seen so many intellegent people who arent afraid to express themselves and acknowledge others all at the same time. I aspire to be like them someday. in my own fashion of course. Several members of my family are my heros. Most teachers are definetly my heros, they seem so accepting of themselves that they want to branch out and help children discover themselves. There is nothing more heroic then wanting to spread knowledge without fear. Knowledge and learning are so valuable and precious, yet so many in the world try to limit and control it for personal power and gain. Without the few in life, the writers, the reporters, the mothers, etc., who passed on learning the world would be filled with drones believing distorted truths without question or choice. Kinda like Nineteen Eighty Four i guess. Its not the failure or success that makes the hero, but the journey getting to that failure or success.

[Lily Adams]

John Adams. (Hence the last name of my pseudonym) What an amazing person. He did so much for his country, and yet he is only on the back of the two dollar bill with all the other delegates of the Second Continental Congress. He is not specialized on any used coin or bill. He has a proposed memorial to be built in Washington, D.C., but I think he should have gotten one long ago, and I doubt this future one will be very big. If he wasn't around during the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence would never have been written because Thomas Jefferson didn't want to write it. Adams was the one who pushed him to do it. And he did so much more, like avoid war with France and become the first ambassador from the United States to England.

More on Adams:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_adams

http://www.nps.gov/adam/historyculture/people.htm

Or read the book John Adams by David McCullough. I highly recommend it!

[TEND]

Well I was raised to be very proud of my culture, and thus my heroes consist of both a Ukrainian hero and a Scottish hero (bet everyone can guess the Scot). My first hero is Taras Shevchenko a man who defined Ukrainian literature, and enforced and really showed pride in Ukranian culture at a time that we were under control of the Russian empire. He was exiled due to the discovery of one of his poems critisizing imperial rule, stuck to serve in the Russian military under constant surveilance and banned from writing or painting. He was forced to live in St. Petersburg for the rest of his life but upon his death friends of Shevchenko arranged to fulfill his final wish, to be buried in Ukraine.
My Scottish hero is of course the great William Wallace, greatly exaggerated by the movie 'Braveheart' (though I still love it). This man led a rebellion along with many other brave souls and defeated the English army in a number of battles. When he was finally captured he was tortured by vivisection than quartered with each quarter going to a different corner of Scotland and his head hung upon London bridge. Robert the Bruce than finished what Wallace and Andrew de Moray had started in 1314 when he defeated the English armies at the battle of Bannockburn (that in and of itself is such an inspiring story).
Come to think of it, Robert the Bruce and Robert Burns are two other Scottish heroes, but you get the idea, I idolize patriots.

[kathycf]

Not a literary hero but a person who helps to raise awareness for a worthy cause, and one that is close to my heart. Angela Shelton.

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