Mythes Et héros

Notion Myth and hero

(Intro) By definition, a myth is an explanatory narrative and founder of a social practice. It is originally carried by oral tradition. The myth is a fabulous story that can contain a moral. Finally, a myth often involves several wonderful characters such as gods, animals, scholars, angels and demons, and the existence of other worlds. Then, according to the dictionary, a hero is a demigod and he stands out by his actions and shows great courage. A hero can be the main character in a story (movie, theater, books ...). Of this fact and the documents discussed in class, we may ask under what circumstances reality is inspired by myths and heroes. At first, we will look at a hero taken from reality, then we will analyze a reality inspired by myths but also their opposites.

(I) The real world is made up of several "heroes", they may be war heroes, saviors of humanity ... In this case we'll look at a man who saved an entire community from segregation slavery, Martin Luther King. Indeed, President Barack Obama pays tribute to this man (and his speech "I Have a Dream") by a poignant speech. Martin Luther king has indeed freed black people from slavery (Emancipation Proclamation), he ended the segregation of blacks also called Negroes.

(II) There is a myth of zero immigration which is what refers to the image of Jeff Parker. Indeed, the fact that there is no migration between countries is a myth, immigrants from one country could not enter another one because they could not learn the language and assimilate into the culture of this country.

As a contrast, the reality presents something else. At the border between the United States and Mexico, for example, there is the problem of immigration; too many Mexicans are seeking to enter the United States illegally. The cause of this immigration is unfortunately the difference in economic development of the 2 countries, the U.S. being richer. To remedy this, the Americans have closed a portion of the border by building a wall and seek to minimize the influx of Mexican immigrants.

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