Myth And Hero

Myths and Hero :

I going talk about the notion of myth and hero. I first I will give a definition of myths and hero.

A myth is a story that may or may not be true. All cultures have myths and this mythology has been developed over time. Mythology included the legends of our history, our religions, stories of how the world was created, and our heroes.

These stories have great symbolic power, and this many be a major reason why they survive, sometimes for thousands of years.

A hero is a person who is admired and that has noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book, or a film, pr a person with a superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own personal hero.

The unit I chose is myth or reality. To illustrate this notion I chose a text “American Land” and a picture.

The first document I have chosen is a song entitled “American Land”, written and interpreted by Bruce Springsteen in 2012. This song deals with the topic of immigration. This song about a real story which tells us the dream of the immigration before going to America. They want to leave their native country because they wanted to escape misery and they dreamed of better prospects. For immigrants the US represented a new Eldorado, it's the land of opportunities where you can find a job and make money but they have to be courageous determined because they start from scratch. However for many of them this Eldorado will transform into a nightmare. Indeed all these immigrants will have a difficult life and many them died to build America of today and for many, the American dream will stay just a myth.

The second document is a picture, a caricature. Joe Heller's comic titled “I can tell by the colors of you skin that you're not from around here, are you?” shows the statue of the liberty driving a red car in the desert, in the foreground of the cartoon. The sun shines brightly in the arid and brown desert behind the car in the background. Next to the driver's door a police officer with “Arizona” written on his uniform, glares of the statue of liberty from behind his sunglasses, his and resting on his holstered gun. He asks “I can tell by the color of you skin that you're not from around here, are you?”. And we imagine that he has pulled her over simply because she's green-skinned and not Caucasian as he's. The cartoon criticizes racism and racial profiling as it addresses the subject of illegal immigration, which is rampant in states like California and Arizona.

To conclude, we can say that myths and heroes have change our lives. Real or not real, they have a capacity to change the mind of many people, to help them and to change the course of story. They do courageous things, they fight for something or they want to serve others. They represent a model.

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