Essay On Being A Hero

“A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes it anyway”-Christopher Reeve. Some people think that a hero can be anywhere from an everyday person who holds the door, to someone who saves a life . A hero is someone who is confident and courageous, even if the challenge at hand is difficult.

Being confident about a weakness and overcoming it is courageous. From the non-fiction book, Edwin hubble, Genius Discoverer of the Galaxies, “He devoted his life to studying the night sky”(Datnow). This shows he was confident by knowing he would discover something, and courageous because he didn’t sleep much because the stars came out at night. He used confidence and courage to bring us more
You just need to have to be brave and take on challenges. George Washington is a great example.”He ordered the remains of his army to retreat and then go across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania”.This shows that he was brave and confident the plan would work and courageously sent his men to retreat. Even though he had been losing all of his battles, he wouldn’t give up. A camper did something brave as well. “Staying on with the remaining to do what he could”. He helped his friends who were attacked by a bear. They could of died is he wasn’t confident and brave to helping them. Although there are many different heroes in the world, there are some people who are not heroes.

Many people people give up, which doesn’t make them a hero.“ My eyes were completely damaged and I was in a lot of pain”. Many people are in hospitals, but that doesn’t make them a hero, in fact, most of them give up. He wasn’t confident or courageous while in the hospital. “I was just doing my job”. He wasn’t very confident about anything because he was only doing his job. He wasn’t courageous because he had nothing to lose or give up on, and that is not a hero. Some people are not very confident or courageous, but many people are, making them