Analysis of Mariah Cary's Hero

Mariah Carey’s Hero: Inspirational and Uplifting
Most people believe that a hero is a brave person who can help you in your time of need. Several musical artists have analyzed and have given their opinion on this subject. Mariah Carey’s hero is not about looking at somebody else as a hero but believing that the hero is you. In this song Mariah Carey expresses her thoughts of hope through: a metaphor of a long road, a hero that can be found in oneself, and a realization that life will go on.
Mariah first expresses the thought of hope by giving the metaphor of a long road in the song. She expresses that life is a “long road when you face the world alone, no one reaches out a hand for you to hold”. She is saying that life is like a long road that sometimes you have to travel it on your own. In these times you may feel like there is no hope and no hero to help you. However, if “you can find love if you search within yourself and the emptiness you feel will disappear.” This is significant because she is saying that even on the long road; you are not truly alone because you carry the love inside you. This gives you enough hope to carry on when you do feel like there is no hand to hold on to. In the end, we don’t need to feel hopeless on the long road if we realize that the hope is with us.
Another way Mariah expresses hope is by saying to find the hero in ourselves. Mariah believes that, “There’s a hero if you look inside your heart with the strength to carry on.” Mariah calls it the “hero” because it is the “hand for you to hold” and it is what is going to give you hope when you are going through the hard times in your life. The hero in yourself is just like the hero that you expect to come save you. They carry hope to you and help you move on with your life. It might be hard to grasp and search within ourselves to find that hero but one we do, we can go anywhere on the long road without feeling hopeless. The expressing of hope through a hero is perfect because