King 1
Matthew King
Professor Mary McAbee
English 102-011
27 September 2015
Modern Hero vs Tragic Hero
Heroes are all around us, coming in all shapes and sizes. We can see them on a daily
basis, everywhere from someone helping an elderly lady cross the street, to a police officer in his
or her line of duty. Sometimes we get caught up in heroes being someone who wears a cape and
a mask but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Mark Twain once said, “Unconsciously we all
have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this
standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we
