Beowulf: A Modern Day Hero
A modern day hero is someone who chooses to make sacrifices without being asked to do so by anyone. Many may look up to a person and say that one day they’d like to have some of those attributes a modern day hero has. In the epic poem Beowulf, thought to be written by a christian monk, the central character and hero is Beowulf, who is looked up to by his people of Sweden, the Geats. Consequently a modern day hero that I admire immensely would be a nurse. Considering the actuality that nurses don’t know what they’re going to see when they go into work or who they’re going to be dealing with makes them genuinely brave. Just like when Beowulf traveled to Denmark to help Hrothgar and his kingdom from Grendel or even after the fifty winters that