Assignment Question
One (1) of the following questions and discuss thoroughly in a well-written essay of about 750 words. You must have a clearly stated thesis and use evidence from the text to support your answer. Use your book, notes, the discussion posts you wrote, and what you have learned to answer the questions–DO NOT do any outside research. 3. What is a hero? All of the works we have read this semester feature a hero/heroine, yet those characters are very different from each other.
Choose at least one hero from each unit and discuss what makes them a hero. Then, decide what qualities those heroes have in common in order to define what you think a hero, no matter the place or time, is.
Unit#1: The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey; The Bhagavad-Gita; The Ramayana
Unit #2: Song of Roland; Conference of the Birds, Shahnameh, 1001 Nights
Unit #3: The Encounter with the New World; Oroonoko
(Picked)Unit #4: Death of Ivan Ilyich; Metamorphosis–Kafka;The Kite Runner
