Hero Archetypes In Nick Gautier In The Chronicles Of Nick Book Series

Hero Archetype The Hero is one of the most common archetypes. Heroes are great people that do good deeds for the sake of everyone rather than personal gain. As a hero you are someone that people revere and respect. There are a few requirements for a character or a person to be considered a hero. These requirements are:

 A special birth (metaphorical birth)

 Early recognition

 Great deed

 Loss of power (western hero)

 Transform into a spiritual force (eastern hero)

This essay will be to compare characters within movies and/or books to the hero archetype. My first comparison will be the main character in the Chronicles of Nick book series. Nick Gautier is a teenager in New Orleans with a single mother and a father in jail for murder. He

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