Paper Towns: What Makes A Hero?

Throughout the process of brainstorming the topic of this essay and using evidence from Paper Towns, the only question I asked myself was, “what makes a hero?” I decided that this will be my purpose question. From reading the book, I developed the thinking that being a hero means having compassion for what you are trying to achieve, having trust in your actions and be willing to take chances when needed. In the novel, Quentin Jacobsen (otherwise known as “Q”), shows lots of compassion towards his quest to discover Margo’s whereabouts. Q believed that Margo left all of the clues for him, he became extremely committed to finding her. “It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she’d left for me. I could never get anywhere with the lines, but I kept thinking about them anyway because I didn’t want to disappoint her. She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped

My auntie told me this story during the summertime about how much my parents loved each other. After hearing this story, I came to the conclusion that my dad was a hero.
My mom had epilepsy. When she had seizures, she had the tendency to hurt herself without knowing. One night, my dad, mom, and auntie were together and my mom began to have a seizure and it got to the point where she was biting her lip so hard it almost began to bleed. My auntie was freaking out and told my dad that my mom was going to hurt herself. After that, he stuck his arm in her mouth to prevent more pain. My auntie then began to freak out a whole lot more, saying that she was going to hurt him, but he didn’t care. All he cared about was the love of his life. The story really got to me, I think about it quite a bit to remind myself that my dad was a hero, and he had so much love for the people he cared about. He was willing to take the chance of being in pain and that is what made him