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Independent Reading Essay
Did you ever read comic books as a kid? Did you have a favorite? Many comic books featured a hero like Superman or Spider-man. Often these heroes would possess super-natural skills or abilities, like the power to fly, or climb walls. They would use these powers to defeat evil villains and save the day. But, does a person have to have special powers to be a hero. To most people they don't. Society views many ordinary people as heroes for what they do as individuals and may view a person as a hero for how they have treated them personally.
In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Manolin views Santiago as a hero.
He feels this way because since he was five Santiago has taken him under his wings and taught him all he knew. He treated him as his son and in turn Manolin viewed Santiago as a father figure. Because of this father – son relationship Manolin looks up to Santiago and views him in a higher regard than the other fisherman. He......

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