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Cyrano De Bergerac And Mother Teresa: Heros? - School Essays

Cyrano De Bergerac And Mother Teresa: Heros?

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A hero? We’re expected to write an entire report on a hero? Two actually. Compare and contrast your two chosen people, are they heroes or aren’t they, blah, blah, blah. Three pages on that? How easy! Definition of a hero: batman, superman, or someone of that stature that has either been in a movie, cartoon series or has gained the privilege of having their face posted on a cereal box and had kids of all ages look up to and idolize them. Well, once I was given the lists to choose from I realized that none of these people fit my idea of what a hero was. I had never seen a movie entitled Mother Teresa The Last Revenge, nor had I recalled browsing through Publix and seeing Cyrano de ...

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to me, right? But still I was perplexed. There had to be more.
So, Cyrano de Bergerac...hmmm...from my first readings he just sounded like this eccentric fellow with a large schnozzle. Why was he even put on the list of heroes? I decided maybe the techniques learned in class could possibly help me out with my dilemma. I read again. I looked over notes again. I read again. I looked over notes again. I think you catch my drift. And it turns out that this Cyrano guy ain’t half bad. In all actuality he may be a hero.
Mr. de Bergerac was an eccentric man, and yes he did have quite the olfactory organ, but he was much more complex than that. He displayed honor and courage. Cyrano was incredibly brilliant and knew much on a multitude of topics. He was a brave soldier and talented writer. He lived and loved passionately. Okay, so now your going, yeah right and so is every Joe Shmoe. But hold on there’s more.
Cyrano was deeply in love with his cousin Roxane. I’m talking ...

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up a bit, Roxane and Christian get married and soon preceding the wedding poor old’ Christian dies. Roxane weeps and weeps and weeps, while Cyrano stands by and has to watch. After the death of what seemed to be her incredible husband Roxane becomes a nun. And who’s right there by her side every Saturday at the stroke of the clock? Yep, you got it, Cyrano. Okay, speeding up again, once a week Cyrano visits the lovely at the nunnery and eventually Roxane figures out it was Cyrano all along and oh my gosh, how could this happen? Again Roxane weeps (Rostand 39-195).
I had to give you that brief synopsis so I can now explain why, in my humble opinion, Cyrano de Bergerac is a hero. ...

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