A hero is a person who is admired for bravado, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Helen Keller is a woman who was struck with a ‘brain disease’ when she was an adolescent and became blind, deaf, and mute (Helen Keller Biography). Odysseus is a fictional character in the Odyssey, who was deserted on an island by Zeus after making the great god feel inferior. Both are heroes who have gone through extraordinary expeditions, which we call the heroes journeys. A hero’s journey is when a hero symbolizes important ideals of his or her home culture, has an unorthodox birth, is called to leave home and goes, is aided by someone with potency, has a weapon that will help on the journey, leaves a safe world and enters a new world, goes
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Helen was born physically normal, but became deaf, blind, and mute when she was struck with an illness thought to be Scarlet Fever at the age of nineteen months (Helen Keller). Helen now had to learn to communicate without two of five senses. She became extremely wild, uncooperative, and had a bad temper (Helen Keller Biography, bio.com). Her parents did not know how to raise her, but finally decided to apply to the Perkins Institute for the Blind to get a teacher for Helen after Alexander Graham Bell recommended it to them (Helen Keller). On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan became Helen’s teacher (Helen Keller Biography). Anne and Helen developed an incipient form of communication, where Anne would spell out words on Helen’s hand and connect it with the object (Helen Keller Biography). She became famous at the age of eight, and was very prominent until her death on June 1, 1968 (Helen Keller Biography). Before then, she went on to receive various awards and accolades (Helen Keller Biography). Overall, she was honored throughout the world in many ways, and to millions of people handicapped or not, she has been a hero (Helen Keller Biography,
Helen was born physically normal, but became deaf, blind, and mute when she was struck with an illness thought to be Scarlet Fever at the age of nineteen months (Helen Keller). Helen now had to learn to communicate without two of five senses. She became extremely wild, uncooperative, and had a bad temper (Helen Keller Biography, bio.com). Her parents did not know how to raise her, but finally decided to apply to the Perkins Institute for the Blind to get a teacher for Helen after Alexander Graham Bell recommended it to them (Helen Keller). On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan became Helen’s teacher (Helen Keller Biography). Anne and Helen developed an incipient form of communication, where Anne would spell out words on Helen’s hand and connect it with the object (Helen Keller Biography). She became famous at the age of eight, and was very prominent until her death on June 1, 1968 (Helen Keller Biography). Before then, she went on to receive various awards and accolades (Helen Keller Biography). Overall, she was honored throughout the world in many ways, and to millions of people handicapped or not, she has been a hero (Helen Keller Biography,