What Does It Mean To Be A Hero

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I’d be fiction, wedged between some angsty dystopian novel and an equally angsty high school drama. The unassuming heroine would no doubt triumph over a world set against her, and all would be settled with a grandiose battle dripping with suspense. But, that simply isn't the truth. We’d all love for our lives to be as beautiful, as exciting, as daring as those sprawled across the pages of our books. But the real world is not as stark as the letters on a page — there is no one villain or one hero, no hidden scale tipped in favor of the moral and the good. Now, great literature often blurs these moral lines and hides villains in heroes, but there is something to be said about a hero who is just plain good. These books fly off the shelves, because

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