The Real Hero

Today I have been given a subject for todays blog entry and that is todays pop culture, literature heroes to the more traditional Heroes like Howard Roark from "Fountainhead" or Equality from "Anthem". Lets start out with some of todays heros like Katniss Everdeen From the "Hunger Games". Katniss was a situational decisison maker who ended up causing as much trouble for other people as she was releiving from herself. For example she may have saved someone else from certain death but she then had everyone else killed in the arena to save the two of them. While they made her out to be a hero in the book and the books that followed she ended up causing just as much pain and suffering from her decisions then whatever else had been decided.

Now lets move on to some heroes like Howard Roark. Howard is determined under no circumstances to keep up his dream of being a very good architect and will let no one decide what he should make for the buildings. Unlike Katniss, Howard has much more integrity that is used in this book then all of the "Hunger Games" put together. No matter what the situation Howard will make the right decision to further his goals in life without letting someone else getting hurt in the process.

Time to wrap this all up with the question that most of you probably saw coming. Who is the better hero? Before I give you the answer lets sum up the paragraphs above real quick. Howard is a straight forward person who will make sure that he gets what he wants but doesn't have to hurt anyone to get his ideal world. Katniss is a situational thinker who will do what she deems right depending what is going on in the book at the time. In other words these two people are complete opposites of each other in most aspects. Well then I believe that the better hero is the traditional heros including Howard. You may wonder why I did only two people while comparing the two types of literature. The reason is beecause these two people represent there era of writing best in comparison to other people and this keeps things simple enough for most people to understand. This is going to be my last entry before Spring Break so I hope everyone has a good week break and that things don't screw up too badly for anyone out there