Homer's Odyssey: Woody As An Epic Hero

Woody: The Epic Hero An epic hero is character who is brave and noble, and that person is someone who carries good leadership traits and goes through an epic journey. Usually an epic hero is from an epic, and an example is Odysseus. Odysseus goes through a journey to return back to Ithaca, his homeland. In the modern era, there are epic heroes all around us. They can be in books, movies, or plays. One great example of a modern epic hero is Woody from Toy Story 3. He is confident, courageous,selfless, and humane. Woody is a toy cowboy and his owner, Andy is going off to college. Woody and his buddies get misplaced and get donated to a child day care center. There, they have to try to escape and return home, after realizing how bad the place

Woody’s courage and selflessness is shown when he is contemplating on if he should go back to save his friends from the torture at Sunnyside Daycare. He discusses among his new pals on what he should do. They all told him not to go because it would be a suicide mission, but he does not listen. At this moment he says, “ I don’t care how dangerous it may be. I need to go save my friends to go back home to Andy.” (Toy Story 3). This shows that although Woody knows that he might get caught and be tortured, he does not care. All he cares about is being able to go back to Andy with everybody. Also, Woody is a selfless leader because he decides that he can not leave his friends alone at Sunnyside. Instead of staying in the state of comfort he was in, Woody decided that he needs to save his friends from the evil, pink, strawberry- scented bear, named Lotso. Secondly, Woody demonstrates his confidence when he goes back to save his friends and devise a plan to escape Sunnyside. All of his peers doubt being able to escape Sunnyside. They think it is impossible because of the tight security. However, Woody tells them, “ Keep your head up high. We are going to escape tonight, and that means we are getting out of here TONIGHT, one way or another.” (Toy Story 3). Here, Woody displays his confidence to his peers. For a moment, all his friends had no confidence in returning home, but Woody allowed them to think positively