Not a Hero… a Code Hero
During the box office hit movie, Spider-Man II, the character of Aunt May said, “I believe there’s a hero in all of us.” Unfortunately, the famous author Ernest Hemingway did not see it that way at all. This man, who had written A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, believed that there were certain characteristics that made up the hero, or the code hero as he called it. Hemingway’s code hero was a character who demonstrated three characteristics that included grace under pressure, honor, courage, and endurance, and last but not least need for ritual. Santiago, Brian Piccolo, and Theodore Roosevelt are all great examples of code heroes.

In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea the main character Santiago displays the three main characteristics of a code hero. In this book, Santiago has not caught a fish in eighty five days and is in much need of a break. He finally catches an enormous marlin but to his dismay the fish......

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