What Kind of Hero is Charlie? Charlie’s qualities exemplify him as a modern hero because he has no sense of community and the world he lives in is unsafe. One example of Charlie, having no sense of community's is due to his mental disability. Therefore, it's hard for him to interact with other people. Since it's hard for Charlie to interact with other people, he feels like he has no meaning in life. In a situation that occurs between Charlie and his peers, Charlie states, “Charlie goes over to Gus, who catches him by the throat. Charlie gets scared of Gus and starts to cry, then he starts hurting Charlie”(54). This evidence shows, how the world is unsafe to Charlie because people are …show more content…
As Charlie starts to get more intelligent, his brain starts to develop ideas that he would have not known before. Charlie states, “I figured out a new way to set up the mixing machines in the bakery to speed up the production. Mr Donner never says he will save labor cost and increase profits. He gave me fifty dollars bonus and a ten dollar a week raise”(59). This evidence shows, how Charlie intelligence helps him to come up with a new way to use the machine. Since Charlie comes up with a new way of using the machine, Mr Donner raises up his profit. Since Charlie’s profit went up, he now knows he can contribute to society using his intelligence. Charlie smartness and contribution was not only meaningful to him, due to the raise of his profit and his new idea that will benefit his job, but also to his boss and for saving labor money to make the production run quicker. Charlie’s contribution made an impact on Mr. Donner by raising his profit and proving that Charlie is smart, Charlie feels appreciated because his boss took his idea into action which is very rare for him to also raise his profit. Charlie has shown how his smartness helped him contribute to resourceful ideas, which has earned him a sense of meaning in life because he proved he is smart and nothing depicts him from being different than any one