Harriet Tubm Qualities Of A Positive Role Model

Qualities of a Positive Role Model In the stories “Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad,” and “The Hunger Games,” some of the characters convey the qualities of a positive role model. Three specific qualities a positive role model should exhibit are compassion, courage, and selflessness. Although a positive role model can display many different and unique qualities, three qualities are essential to a positive role model; therefore, courage, compassion. and selflessness are qualities that help build a positive role model.

In “The Hunger Games,” Katniss and Gale show the quality of selflessness. “With both of us hunting daily, there are still nights when game has to be switched for lard or shoelaces of wool, still nights when we go to bed with our stomachs growling.’ (Collins, 9) Katniss and Gale are selfless because they hunt and care for their families, sometimes making sacrifices for them in order for them to be healthy and happy. My role model, my mother is selfless because she works full time as a nurse, and still drives me to all of my practices and rehearsals, comes to all of my games and competition, and cares for my three siblings and I.

“She made two trips a year into slave territory, one in the fall and another in the spring. She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and carrying it, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years.” (Petry, 496) During a span of 10 years she escorted over 300 slaves to freedom, and never lost a single