Tevion’s+Hero+Essay

__The Giving Tree__ __Do you relate to this? The giving tree may seem like a regular children’s novel but it’s actually a metaphor for a person who is in love and is willing to do anything for the person that he/she loves. The author Shel Silverstein describes in the tale that a tree loves a boy and gives her apples, branches, and even her trunk for the boy, but the boy grows up and doesn’t really pay any attention to the tree.__

__“The Giving Tree” can be portrayed as the relationship between many things for example the Nile and the citizens of Egypt. The Niles annual flooding provided good soil for the people an abundance of fish and water for the crops. She provided spaces so they can get their boats into the water to get limestone block for pyramids. But they blocked of her vibrant flow with the Aswan Dam. So that kind of relates to the giving tree story.__ Gettysburg address Five score and forty years ago This speech was only 246 words long it sounded like he spent hours making this speech. The speech kind of tells me that all the soldiers were not buried in a honored way, so they made this burial ground for them. Soldiers from the war in Vietnam went there to honor these men for their hard work. “The Little Mermaid” The little mermaid [The little mermaid in the story is selfless loving and kind. She is all those things because she fell in love with a prince and chose to save his life instead of hers. But, on the bright side of things she turned into one of the daughters of the air. The sea witch [the sea witch is evil, nefarious, cunning. The sea witch is this because if you want something you have to trade for what you want and there is always a catch something bad always happens to you for example the little mermaid is painfully separated from her tongue. After that at noon the next day she dies.

//A hero is a person that is greatly known and has done something very good for people. Heroes that always come to my mind are Martin Luther King Jr. and the people who died in the twin towers.// //An unsung hero is a person that does great things but// doesn’t take credit. The good deed that they do is helping others but ill don’t take credit they help and the people plead and plead but they don’t take the credit. That teaches me to not take credit for the really good things I do because that will make me brag about everything and people will start to dislike me. My uncle shares many qualities of an unsung hero because he didn’t finish high school but is now going to Ventura College. This shows that he wanted to do better in his life. Now my uncle, Allen Butler is now going to go to a real college California Lutheran University. So who is my hero, my uncle a really great uncle to. Not so many kids get to have a mentor so im really lucky to have my uncle. What is a Hero? "Students Agree on Villains But Have Difficulty Identifying Heroes — Except Close to Home" James Ottavio Castagnera