Synthèse Mythes & Héros – Lucas Pierru TS4During this sequence, we studied the notion of Myth and heroes.

« Synthèse Mythes & Héros – Lucas Pierru TS4 During this sequence, we studied the notion of Myth and heroes.

A myth can be defined as a story about gods or heroes, it can be a popular belief or a tradition or a false notion.

A hero can be a mythological figure, a person who is admired for his or her achievements, a superhero or maybe a model or an icon.

The documents that we studied in class were mainly speaking about heroes who started from nothing and became heroes because of their remarkable stories.

So how can myths and heroes change our lives ? To answer this question, we’re going to see in a first part the myths and the heroes which, because of their action, became models, secondly, I'm going to talk about the threat or consequences that a hero has to face because of is popularity and because he is considered as a hero. First,we talk about the myth of the american dream and more precisely we talk first about our dream job.

In this part of the sequence we've seen a video about what is supose to be «THE» best job in the world.

It was told there that you could win 100 000 dollars per year and the only thing you had to do was explore the great barrier reef in Australia.

This example is representative of what could be the american dream because even if it was an idea of a society in Australia you have all the codes of the american dream : everyone can participate, can change is life by getting this job and win this open contest.

To continue on the myth of the american dream, we learn this «From rags to riches» story, It's a text about the premiere of the movie about justin bieber « never say never » which tells his story from his tough childhood to his life of today as popular singer.

The film is about one thing : never give up hope and believe that anything is possible.

And in this text we can also see that Bieber can be considered as a model, a hero which is also related to our notion. We also talk about Ted Williams, a hero with a golden voice.

This guy was homeless and he was doing some tricks with his voice to earn some dollars, to survive.

After he first showed up on TV,he found a job, he has been engaged on a radio channel and now he is fulfiling his american dream, and because of that he is an example to follow.

Then, we've seen two listening comprehension about two famous people : Eva Longoria and Steve Jobs.

First, Eva Longoria was doing a speech about the 2012 election in the United States she talk about the american dream and she tells the story of a young girl which dream is to become president of the United States of America and then Eva Longoria say that she want a president who build an America where those kind of dreams are possible and she bring her support to Barack Obama.

And after we talk about Steve Jobs in a more complicated context for some reason : First, because the recording we heard talked about his death and also because we talk about him as a hero but also as an anti-hero and talk about what he has done in his life and why he is considered like that.

Steve Jobs is a self made man who made apple one of the biggest company in the world and he revolutionize new technologies but has I've sais before he is also considered has an anti and that's where we're going to talk about the consequences because many people hated him because for example, he subcontracted the manufacturing of apple products in China where workers are paid the minimum possible and working conditions where unacceptable and when a guy like Steve Jobs considered as one of the modern heroes do that it is sure it has consequences on his image. To conclude we can say that myths and heroes have changed our lives.

Many heroes fought for things that they cherished.

They have a capacity to influence the minds of many people, to help them and to change the course of history.

Heroes do courageous things, they fight for something or they want to serve others.

They represent a model, an ideal person.

And nobody can deny their comportment, they changed the history.. »