Essential+Questions

- Determined, focused, and willing. Also, they have a desire to change themselves or change their environment around them.
 * 1. How do we define the personality traits of a hero? **

- Setting can affect their ability to overcome obstacles because of other people who may not encourage them or help them get through challenges. Conflicts put the person to a test of their will power and strength to be able to focus on overcoming obstacles. Antagonists can discourage the person of overcoming challenges, or distract them, or try to stop them from getting through challenges.
 * 2. How do the setting, conflicts, and antagonists influence the development of a literary hero? **

- A hero can represent many other people in their society that wants to make the same changes that they do. A hero can be going through what other people in their society are going through, and can be a role model for everyone else in their society. In //Go Ask Alice//, the setting is during the 1970's which was a rebellious time. A large percent of people were using during this time, so a lot of people were influencing her to follow the crowd.
 * 3. How does a hero represent his/her particular culture and society? **

- A hero can represent what music, media, and many other people in their society and how they are influencing the hero on by the decisions that the hero is making before they decide to overcome their challenges and obstacles to "save themselves,"
 * 4. How does a hero represent his/her time period and geographical area? **

- In groups to help people with addiction, such as AA, people who overcome their alcohol addiction recieve a gold coin at the end of their time their which is a reward.Celebrities that overcome addictions get interviewed, talked about, put on TV shows, and sometimes get books written on them.
 * 5. How do various cultures reward or recognize their heroes? **

- Being a hero of yourself involves you wanting to change for the better and this can be hard for people to do. Being a hero of other people is more about the want to help or save other people. Also if you are a hero of yourself, you have to set goals for yourself to overcome which can be difficult to do. It's hard if your environment is pushing you to do one thing, but you want to change yourself for the better.
 * 6. How is being a hero of someones self more difficult than being a hero of other people? **

- Because if you change yourself, people around you, media and the environment that you are in might be influencing you to go back to the way you were before, and the pressure could get to you. Also if people are not supporting what you want to change about yourself, that can be very challenging. Going through internal battles can be confusing too because you are fighting your own wants and desires, and convincing yourself to change your ways can be very tiring and draining.
 * 7. How might "saving yourself" or getting through internal challenges take a lot of tries? **

- Feelings of loss, deprivation and despair. Anxiety and loneliness are common feelings. Peeople who are giving up an addiction can feel like it's impossible to stay away from their old ways.
 * 8. What feelings of giving up an addiction can cause a person to go back to their old ways? **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">- In //Cut//, her home life is focused on her brother and that nobody cares about her. Also she feels like her brother's illness is because of her, so she is too overwhelmed with those feelings and deals with those feelings by harming herself. In //Go Ask Alice//, the main character's mother is constantly pressuring her to be how her mother wants her to be. She won't let her be herself, which causes the main character to act out and rebel. Although her parents don't know she is doing this, she feels better by being able to do what she wants to do. She does this by having promiscuous sex, abusing drugs and alcohol, and running away from home and trying to live on her own.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">9. How does the heros' home life affect their decisions in life? **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">- If a hero has a positive mindset and believes in themselves that they can achieve their goal, then they are more likely to overcome all of the challenges during their journey. Also, a positive mindset could make the hero have an easier time getting through their journey. If a hero has a negative mindset, then it could be a lot more difficult to accomplish their goals during their transformation. If they don't believe in themselves, then they are less likely to succeed in getting through all of the challenges of the journey.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">10. How does a hero's mindset effect the outcome of the journey? **