I am doing responses to student espouses about Nelson Mandela and heroes. People love Nelson Mandela for what he did in the world.

 

1. Jazmyne- I don’t have a hero but I think that Nelson Mandela was a hero for everyone in Africa. He helped inspire many people and made changes in Africa for the better. I think that Nelson lived a very meaningful life and left footsteps that everyone could look up.

Response: I agree that Nelson Mandela was a hero for everyone in Africa. He inspired people by standing up for black freedom. He did live a very meaningful life and I betcha some people are wanting to follow in his footsteps but can’t because they are busy doing work. They can still believe in those things but not do anything about them.

2.  Jhiana M- My hero is Nelson Mandela because he stood up for something he believed in.

Response: That’s true, he believed in freedom for blacks. He stood by it until he died. He lived for a pretty long time so that means he stood by that for long. Things happened to him while he stood up for that. He got put in jail but he was still standing by that black freedom. Good for him. Now that he is gone someone else should stand by it and take his place.

 

Something that makes someone a hero is that they are selfless and they put others before themselves. Something that makes someone a coward is that they do bad things to others, are intimidated easily, and blame other people for what they did. I watched the movie Four Feathers and there were characters that were heroes and cowards. Someone can be a coward and change into a hero, and someone can be a hero and change into a coward. People can be called a coward but actually aren’t one, and some people can be called a hero but actually aren’t.

Some characters in Four Feathers that are heroes are Harry and Abu. Harry is a hero because he gets called a coward and then travels through the Sudan to help his fellow soldiers from the bad guys. He helps his fellow soldiers fighting and then helps Jack when he is blind. Helps him by cleaning him up. His feathers keep him going. Abu is a hero because he saves Harry when he finds him half dead in the middle of the desert. If he wouldn’t have found Harry, then Harry would’ve died. He also keeps Harry safe throughout the whole movie.

There isn’t really a coward in the movie. Harry is a coward at the beginning but he changes his ways. He resigns from the army because he is afraid. At first he only gets 3 feathers from his fellow soldiers and then gets one more from Ethany to add up to four. He decides that he can’t live with himself knowing that people think he is a coward and knowing that he did something to make these think that. So he heads off on his quest to help his friends and he becomes a hero.