Heroes And Fire: Similarities Between A Hero And A Celebrity

Water and Fire

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself,” -Joseph Campbell. Before I can read and write, a hero was someone in the movie who knows how to fight. All heroes made in the movies know how to fight and they never get hit by the bullet. Then after many years of being tricked, I finally found out the truth that most of all my favorite heroes were just celebrities. On the internet, Dictionary.com define Hero as a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. It also define Celebrity as a famous or well-known person. A hero is someone who had made great sacrifices in order to help someone else. A celebrity is a
Some celebrity have done some great things for the less fortunate. Mr. Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie who are two famous celebrities, became hero/heroine by giving $6.4 million worth of grants, and also established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation in 2006, to assist with humanitarian crises around the world. In comparison, Dr. Phillip Goudeaux, who is a great hero, and a father figure, constantly assist people in need of personal management and even in salvation. The hero and celebrity becomes famous when they participate to improve the community in some ways. Like the fictive hero “Superman,” who is always on the look-out for trouble disturbing the peace of his community, they contribute their effort to better the world without thinking of a
The real hero doesn’t work under a manager or get paid to be one but the celebrity does. For example, without compensation, during the Vietnam War my grandfather was drafted into the Secret Service consisted of Laos and Hmong’s tribesman. My grandfather and some of the Secret Service’s mission was to rescue American pilots at all cost. Many of them, including my grandfather, never return home because the task was so difficult. To trade his life for someone else’s is bravery and he’s my hero for doing that. Some hero doesn’t even get a chance to see what they fought so hard for, but they didn’t do it for the fame, instead for the change. A celebrity that I can relate to this is the famous Tom Hank, who played as Captain Miller in the movie, “Saving Private Ryan” a war movie set during the invasion of Normandy in WW11. Private Ryan and his only brother were both in the service until his brother was shot and killed. Captain Miller’s mission was to abort Private Ryan’s mission and give him the message of his brother’s death. Instead, Private Ryan refused to abort and delayed the entire mission causing the life of Captain Miller’s. Tom Hank, like my grandfather, played a heroic act, and was recognized for it. The difference is that my grandfather never knew he was going to become a hero and he never expect a tribute for his effort. Tom Hank, on the other hand, did it for a