An Assessment Of Concepts In Hugh Garner's Act Of A Hero

An Assessment of Concepts in Hugh Garner’s “Act of a Hero” In Hugh Garner’s “Act of a Hero” the setting is important due to various factors. The story begins during a winter’s morning on the main street of a small town which serves as the main character's place of residence. It was a cold and brisk morning with snow on the ground. A public school located near a residential portion of the municipality has become the scene of a fire. The narrative’s atmosphere shifts from calm and relaxed when he is driving around the town to tense and frightened. The mood changes from calm and relaxed to tense when George Ellsworth begins to panic at the sight of students and teachers rushing outside of the school building because of the fire. Once he enters the old school building, he sees young

He saved two girls on his way out and everyone was happy except him. He got in his truck and drove to his house as quickly as possible, where his wife and his children were waiting for him to have supper. The story all takes place in one day. It starts off in the morning and ends with George sitting down to supper with his family. The main protagonist in “Act of a Hero” by Hugh Garner is George Ellsworth. He is presented in the story as an ordinary man who lives in a small town. He is a tall man who is thirty years old and has two children named Barry and Sandra. George can be described as caring and protective of his family because he runs into a burning school to try to rescue his own children. When he is in the burning school looking for his children, he starts to show signs of being a coward. He hesitates when he comes across a burning part of the corridor and hopes that his children made it outside so he does not have to keep searching for them. He considered heading outside to see if his kids made it outside without him having to rescue