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Someone would believe that a good and noble person would save a person’s life if they were in danger. What makes a person a hero or what is a hero? I believe a hero is a person that had saved someone’s life before. I think a person is a hero after they had saved someone’s life not if they a firefighter or a police officer that haven’t gain experience from any moment of saving a life. I think today the word “Hero” is being misused and understood. For example, today children look up to Justin Bieber and consider him as a hero or a role model instead of looking up to a soldier that has put his life on the line for his country.

People would suspect for a hero to be a good citizen that goes to church every Sunday, that helps for the good, and don’t ask for anything in exchanged. However, they are wrong anyone can become a hero there are no background checks before becoming one. Anyone in this world could become a hero even a dog or a fugitive that had just escape from prison and has a bad criminal record. People would assume if they were caught in a burning building that a firefighter would come to rescue them. However, they don’t know that the firefighter would save his life before saving theirs because that how a firefighter are trained. They are not trained to be a hero, they are trained to be professionals at what they do and that is a firefighter.

I do considered that there are good and bad heroes. For example, a good hero would fall in the category of being noble that would rescue someone’s life and does not ask for anything in exchanged. For example, Jack Bauer from the Television series “24.”Jack Bauer has saved dozens of lives and in return has gotten him torture to death or even sent to federal prison. This man has never ask or gotten a Medal of Honor or a reward for his heroic acts. In the end of saving people’s lives or even the whole country Jack Bauer had to disappear and hide from the world that he had helped saved.

However, a bad hero would ask for something in return or maybe demand it. For example, Bernie Laplante from the film “Hero.” In this movie Bernie is looked as a con artist, a credit card fraud, and a thief. In the movie Bernie had saved all passengers from a plane crash the main person he saved was a reporter Gale Gayley which in the process of saving her Bernie stole her purse. In confusion, someone becomes a hero after saving someone’s life it doesn’t matter is the person has done good karma in the world or terrorizes it.