Paulina’s+Hero+Essay

If you want to read a story that reflects love, here is a store for called “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. It may seem like a children’s novel, but it is actually a metaphor for a devoted person willing to sacrifice everything due to her love another. The author describes a tale of an apple tree who bequeaths her branches, her fruit, even her trunk in order to make the boy happy. If the boy is happy, she is content. As the boy progresses in age, he demands more and more from the tree and the tree continues to give. The story ends with the boy resting in the last years of his life and the tree and boy enjoy each other’s company.“The giving tree’ can be portrayed as the relationship between the pharaoh and the citizens of ancient Egypt. The boys’ selfishness represents the pharaoh because they are both selfish and use what they have just for them self’s. The tree is like the citizens of ancient Egypt. The tree gives the boy what she have s and the citizens of ancient Egypt help their pharaoh with what they have. When you give, your hands are open to receive. Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address was by Abraham Lincoln. His speech was less than two minutes but it continued for generations. The speech that he wrote was about 270 words and it started with ‘four score and seven years ago.’ ‘Four score and seven years ago’ means 87 years because the word ‘score’ means 20 so four score is 80 and seven years ago mean 80+7=87. This speech refers to the battle that happened for 3 days. It was from July 1st-3rd 1863, and in the battle thousands of men died from both union and confederate. In November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln presented a new cemetery to represent the people that died in the war. This relates to Egypt because the people in the war risked their lives for their country. In Egypt farmers and workers exposed their lives building a pyramid for their pharaoh.
 * The giving tree **

//** The Little Mermaid **// Don’t you ever wonder about the story and characters in the story “The Little Mermaid?” Well this story was created by Hans Christian Andersen. The main idea of this story is that sacrifice can be costly, even the price of dead. In the story “The Little Mermaid”, little mermaid saves a human which is a prince and then she falls in love with the prince and inhaled her last breath for him.

The little mermaid is the protagonist in the story, and she redefines the word sacrifice. For example she sacrifices her life for the prince. This shows that she was willing to leave home so she can be with the prince. This also shows that she is really likes the prince. As a result, little mermaid is a person who does what she wants to do.

The sea witch is the antagonist of the story and she doesn’t gives until she gets. For example, little mermaid wanted human feet so she can see the prince but the sea witch told her that in order for her to give her the feet little mermaid had to give the witch her tongue. This tells you that the sea witch has to get something from you before she gives you something.

According to dictionary.com, a hero is a man of distinguished courage or ability and a person who has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. A hero also makes other people’s lives better by coming up of new possibilities. An unsung hero is a person who makes a substantive yet unrecognized contribution also known as a hero who has not been recognized to his contributions for its society. An unsung hero is Princess Diana and Teresa de Culcuta because they like helping a lot of people. For example they go see children and help them by bringing them food or stuff that they need. My mom is my hero because she is been there for me all my life. Since I was born until I turn 40 (maybe). I think my mom is an unsung hero because whenever she hears things that talk about helping people she is always willing to donate money. For example, in 4th grade when Haiti had an earthquake my mom was willing donate money to help the people living over there. She also cooks for me and takes care of me. Like, my favorite food that she makes it’s her spaghetti. This relates to the giving trees because my hero gives and just wants people to be safe or happy.
 * My Hero **