An Essay On Why Ordinary People Are Heroes

If someone were in danger or perhaps everyone in a city, who would help them?Ordinary people who will do anything to help. A man who is selfish and only cares to help himself or his group. A person who does one good deed. People who do one good deed or inspires are not heroes, they just do heroic things at times. People who try to save somebody even if they fail are heroes. Heroes are ordinary people who help others before themselves, they face challenging obstacles even though they can’t save everybody.
A hero faces obstacles to get to their primary goal. Heroes can go through life with disabilities and achieve their goal they have worked hard for. Helen Keller was a blind and deaf girl who grew up to be a great writer and speaker despite her disabilities. “Life is either a great adventure or nothing. The best and most wonderful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full

of the overcoming of it”(www.brainyquote.com). Despite Helen’s disabilities she learned how to speak in English and write in the language and she was the first deaf and blind person to do so. In comparison, Tristan Eugene Segers lost his leg while fighting in Afghanistan. “Just below his knee, Segers’ right leg was gone”(SB p.58). Seger’s lost his leg but now he has a family and a happy healthy life, starting a career as a chef. A hero faces many challenging obstacles before they get to their goal.
A hero is a person who is selfless and helps others before themselves.

Heroes raise up their voice for others. Malala grew up in Pakistan where girls couldn’t go to school, so Malala stood up for women’s rights in her country. “I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… we cannot succeed when half of us are held back”(Goodreads.com). Malala stood up for all girls to get school in her country, she took a bullet so others wouldn’t and for everyone to listen. Similarly, Frederick Douglass spoke so others would feel freedom. Douglass was a former slave who went up to the North to be free later on in his life he became a speaker to have all slaves be free. “I seldom had, much to say at the meetings, because what I wanted to say was said so much better by others”(SB p.72). Frederick Douglass spoke for all slaves to get freedom and live their life, not someone else’s. Heroes help others before themselves not letting other’s opinions influence their

decisions.
A hero is someone who does not always help everyone but tries to help. In the last hour of Welles's life he led people to safety risking his life. Welles worked in the South tower of the New York Trade System when a plane crashed into the tower, Welles led people to safety giving up his life for the others around him. “Follow me, only help the on who you could help”(“The Man in the Red Bandanna”) Welles couldn’t save everyone but that couple of people he did save achieved his goal. Likewise, the boat people led people of the island to safety. In 9/11 the only way out of New York was boats so the boats boarded people and out. “A hero is a man who does what he can”(Boatlift 9/11). The men in the boats helped lead people off the island, they couldn’t save everyone but those number of people were safe. If a hero saves 15 people, they have succeeded because a hero does not help everyone but they do help the ones they can.
Heroes are ordinary people who help others before themselves, they face challenging obstacles even though they can’t save everybody. In the world you live in, heroes are thought of as superheroes but real heroes are ordinary people making a change for the better of everyone, Without these heroes, there would be no one to save the people. The world needs these heroes to make the world a better place to live in.