Myths and heroes

     Myths and      

     heroes

                  MYTHS AND HEROES

I’m going to talk about the notion of myths andheroes.

First of all, I’m going to give a definition about this

 notions. A myth, it’s a story about gods or heroes who

 can be a popular belief, a tradition or a false notion.

 An hero can be a real or mythological figure.He is

 most of the time admired for his actions, his courage

 and his noble qualities. We can ask ourselves if it

 does require exeptional qualities to be a hero or can

 anyone be just considered as such on day? There

 are tree documents to illustrate the problematic ; the

 first document is an article published in January 18, 2015 by Jame Owen in London. This article is issued

 on National Geographie News.The second document

 is a video that talking about the Irish Paralympic

 Champions who are considered like heroes. And the

 3rd document is a sculpture of Hercules dating back

 to about 200 years after Jesus Christ. We can see in

 this sculpture Hercules when he was young and he

 strangling a snake.

One on hand, to be a hero you have to be strong,

 brave and ready to risk your life. And it's not

 something banal. we can take the example of Hercules. Hercules is a hero of Roman mythology, he

is a half god, he is the son of Zeus.He is known for his

 exceptional strength and courage, which allowed him

 to accomplish the famous twelve works.

Moreover, in myths, heroes are often the gods or half-

gods and they have supernatural powers.

One the other hand, We can see that we do not need

 to have powers or a parent who is a god. For

 exemple we can can look at the first document : in

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