Notion: Myths and Heroes

Myths originally aimed at explaining the origins of humanity and narrating the foundation of a given community. Growing up means making decisions about yourself and your life. As a matter of fact, finding an interesting job is one of people’s main concerns. This choice of a career path may depend on your background, education, values, personality and ambitions, but it is also often linked to more general considerations such as what a society values most at a particular time or which role model dominates your time.

We can wonder, how can myths and heroes influence people’s careers?

To answers this question we go to speak about a text intituled “A track to follow” to Robin Olds, and about a text named “What a great job!” to Randall Stross. Theses narratives thus deliver a message about the human condition.

The document intituled “A track to follow” speak about a pursuit pilot. We can see a picture to this fighter pilot. He seems to be proud of himself because he helps and defends his country by taking risks each and every day and by putting his life in danger for his fellow citizens. When reading this text one cannot but notice that the narrator, Robin Olds Admires pilots, and that he draws the portrait of his father who was like a hero, a role model for him. It is to be added that the narrator father is someone who made him want to become a flying ace. To put it in a nutshell, the narrator was clearly influenced by his father. We can see thanks to this document that hero can influence career of people. Here, Robin Olds was clearly influenced by his father. His father is like a hero for him! Robin Olds careers was influenced by his father. It’s an example that heroes can influence people career.

The text intituled “What a great job” speak about Thomas Edison and Steve Job’s achievement. Thomas Edison is the one who invented the electric light bulb as well as the phonograph. Whereas Steve Jobs started Apple Computer. In the text, we can notice that the author compares these two fellows, more precisely about the way people reacted to their death. On that occasion, lots of people felt grief, sadness, sorrow. In fact, we can say that people are clearly influenced by these two men. That both men worked in various domains. But they were successful very early. Mr Jobs was someone determined, single minded. He was nicknamed “the world’s greatest inventor”. Unlike, Thomas Edison was not very much interested in money since as he was a genius, what he was keen on was inventing things. Steve Jobs was absolutely adored by people. It is to be said that Mr Edison will remain a sheer genius, someone high above the crowd whereas. It is to be added that myths or heroes can influence people’s opinion and careers.

Indeed, a society is based on founding myths, a collective identity… A society depends on heroic men and women and further creates new role-models people get their inspiration from. The concept of myths and heroes then serves a more profound purpose in our culture than mere fictional stories. However, even if you may get some inspiration from mythical stories and iconic figures, in the end you will have to face reality and do your best to make your dream come true.

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